awstats did not fully sanitize input, which was passed directly to the user’s browser, allowing for an XSS attack. If a user was tricked into following a specially crafted awstats URL, the user’s authentication information could be exposed for the domain where awstats was hosted. (CVE-2006-3681)
awstats could display its installation path under certain conditions. However, this might only become a concern if awstats is installed into an user’s home directory. (CVE-2006-3682)
10 October 2006
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
awstats did not fully sanitize input, which was passed directly to the user’s browser, allowing for an XSS attack. If a user was tricked into following a specially crafted awstats URL, the user’s authentication information could be exposed for the domain where awstats was hosted. (CVE-2006-3681)
awstats could display its installation path under certain conditions. However, this might only become a concern if awstats is installed into an user’s home directory. (CVE-2006-3682)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
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