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Debian DSA-1679-1 : awstats - XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35032

Synopsis

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

Description

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 ).

Solution

Upgrade the awstats package.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 6.5+dfsg-1+etch1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495432

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3714

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1679

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35032

File Name: debian_DSA-1679.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:awstats

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/3/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3714

CWE: 79

DSA: 1679