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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.12.2005.167.1
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-167-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'awstats' package(s) announced via the USN-167-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'awstats' package(s) announced via the USN-167-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
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.

Affected Software/OS:
'awstats' package(s) on Ubuntu 5.04.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1527
BugTraq ID: 14525
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14525
Debian Security Information: DSA-892 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-892
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=290&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=false
http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5DP0J00GKE.html
http://www.osvdb.org/18696
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014636
http://secunia.com/advisories/16412
http://secunia.com/advisories/17463
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2005:019 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/167-1/
XForce ISS Database: awstats-eval-execute-commands(21769)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21769
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