USN-360-1: awstats vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 6.06
• Ubuntu 5.10
• Ubuntu 5.04

Details

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)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 6.06

• awstats - 6.5-1ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 5.10

• awstats - 6.4-1ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 5.04

• awstats - 6.3-1ubuntu0.4

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2006-3681
• CVE-2006-3682