USN-4953-1: AWStats vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 20.10
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• awstats - powerful and featureful web server log analyzer

Details

Sean Boran discovered that AWStats incorrectly filtered certain parameters.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2020-29600)

It was discovered that AWStats incorrectly filtered certain parameters. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive
information. (CVE-2020-35176)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.10

• awstats - 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.20.10.1

Ubuntu 20.04

• awstats - 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04

• awstats - 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• awstats - 7.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.4+esm1
  Available with Ubuntu Pro

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2020-35176
• CVE-2017-1000501
• CVE-2020-29600

Related notices

• USN-3518-1: awstats