Debian DSA-1058-1 : awstats - missing input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22600

Synopsis

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

Description

Hendrik Weimer discovered that specially crafted web requests can cause awstats, a powerful and featureful web server log analyzer, to execute arbitrary 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 6.4-1sarge2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22600

File Name: debian_DSA-1058.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2006

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (AWStats migrate Remote Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2237

BID: 17844

DSA: 1058

Detections

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