AWStats Upgrade

soulposition · February 1, 2005, 7:17pm

Are there any plans to upgrade AWStats? There is currently an exploit that affects versions 5 through 6.2.

Warning, a security hole was recently found in AWStats versions from 5.0 to 6.2 when AWStats is used as a CGI: A remote user can execute arbitrary commands on your server using permissions of your web server user (in most cases user “nobody”).
If you use AWStats with another version or with option AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser to 0, you are safe. If not, it is highly recommanded to update to 6.3 version that fix this security hole.

I’m not sure about the second part though.

I’ve turned mine off for now.

Thanks,
Jason Tucker
http://jtucker.org/soul

Stephen · February 1, 2005, 7:41pm

AWStats will be upgraded in the coming hsphere updates.

Deepak-JH · February 1, 2005, 7:49pm

Thanks for the info.
Also “AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser” option is already disabled on all servers.

soulposition · February 1, 2005, 7:53pm

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Thanks for the info.
Also “AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser” option is already disabled on all servers.
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Awesome, thanks for the update. As for the update to HSPHERE, is there a time frame?

Jason Tucker
http://jtucker.org/soul

Stephen · February 1, 2005, 7:55pm

we will not be a first adopter, so no.