DSA-1679-1 awstats -- cross-site scripting

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+etch4.

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+etch4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_6.5+dfsg-1+etch4.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_6.5+dfsg.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_6.5+dfsg-1+etch4_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.