Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1238-1 awstats -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
10 Jan 2018
Affected Packages:
awstats
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 885835.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-1000501.
More information:

Awstats version 7.6 and earlier is vulnerable to a path traversal flaw in the handling of the config and migrate parameters resulting in unauthenticated remote code execution.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 7.0~dfsg-7+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your awstats packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS