[clug] Re: linux Digest, Vol 31, Issue 25

Tony and Robyn Lewis beakysnugger at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Jul 23 02:28:02 GMT 2005


Conrad Canterford wrote:

>
>Are you running AWStats? If so, uninstall it NOW and do not reinstall
>it. I do recommend the blow-it-away-and-restart-from-scratch approach to
>fixing this.
>
>A compromise was found in awstats many months ago, and to the best of my
>knowledge has not been fixed yet.
>  
>
I think it has:

http://secunia.com/product/4490/

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_changelog.txt

When this came out, I disabled it too, but now I run it behind some 
authentication.

The wisdom of locking down what apps you offer on your webserver is 
wiser than ever.

Tony



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