Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200501-36 (awstats)

Summary
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200501-36.
Solution
All AWStats users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-www/awstats-6.3-r2' Note: Users with the vhosts USE flag set should manually use webapp-config to finalize the update. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200501-36 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77963 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81775 http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_changelog.txt http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=185
Insight
AWStats fails to validate certain input, which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code or to the leak of information.