DSA-4092-1 awstats -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-1000501  

The cPanel Security Team discovered that awstats, a log file analyzer, was vulnerable to path traversal attacks. A remote unauthenticated attacker could leverage that to perform arbitrary code execution. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 7.2+dfsg-1+deb8u1. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 7.6+dfsg-1+deb9u1. We recommend that you upgrade your awstats packages. For the detailed security status of awstats please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/awstats

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4092-1 awstats -- security update

Date Reported:
19 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:

The cPanel Security Team discovered that awstats, a log file analyzer, was vulnerable to path traversal attacks. A remote unauthenticated attacker could leverage that to perform arbitrary code execution.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 7.2+dfsg-1+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 7.6+dfsg-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your awstats packages.

For the detailed security status of awstats please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/awstats