Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1679-1 awstats -- cross-site scripting
- Date Reported:
- 03 Dec 2008
- Affected Packages:
- awstats
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 495432.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-3714. - More information:
-
Morgan Todd discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in awstats, a log file analyzer, involving the "config" request parameter (and possibly others; CVE-2008-3714).
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 6.5+dfsg-1+etch1.
The unstable (sid) and testing (lenny) distribution will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your awstats package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_6.5+dfsg-1+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_6.5+dfsg-1+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_6.5+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_6.5+dfsg-1+etch1.dsc
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_6.5+dfsg-1+etch1_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.