Debian: New awstats packages fix cross-site scripting
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1679-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer December 03, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : awstats Vulnerability : cross-site scripting Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-3714 Debian Bug : 495432 Morgan Todd discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in awstats, a log file analyzer, involving the "config" request parameter (and possibly others; CVE-2008-3714). For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 6.5+dfsg-1+etch1. The unstable (sid) and testing (lenny) distribution will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your awstats package. Upgrade instructions - --------------------wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch - -------------------------------Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 20369 bbe38406f0402fd5b7be2d0a427223c8 Size/MD5 checksum: 1079 2fd97dfcfcbf48cbe0e4a1a431cb43bd Size/MD5 checksum: 1041837 af6cbfbf470eb45f5238501813d6d1c6 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 837326 878a4f0ab2ccb36c324c0c171a6a39b5 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org