USN-167-1: AWStats vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 5.04

Details

Peter Vreugdenhil discovered a command injection vulnerability in
AWStats. As part of the statistics reporting function, AWStats
displays information about the most common referrer values that caused
users to visit the website. Referer URLs could be crafted in a way
that they contained arbitrary Perl code which would have been executed
with the privileges of the web server as soon as some user visited the
referrer statistics page.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.04

• awstats -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2005-1527