Debian DSA-892-1 : awstats - missing input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22758

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Peter Vreugdenhil discovered that awstats, a featureful web server log analyser, passes user-supplied data to an eval() function, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary Perl commands.

Solution

Upgrade the awstats package.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 6.4-1sarge1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22758

File Name: debian_DSA-892.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:awstats, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1527

DSA: 892

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