[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: awstats-7.0-9.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-18423
2012-11-17 23:19:21
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Name        : awstats
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 7.0
Release     : 9.fc17
URL         : http://awstats.sourceforge.net
Summary     : Advanced Web Statistics
Description :
Advanced Web Statistics is a powerful and featureful tool that generates
advanced web server graphic statistics. This server log analyzer works
from command line or as a CGI and shows you all information your log contains,
in graphical web pages. It can analyze a lot of web/wap/proxy servers like
Apache, IIS, Weblogic, Webstar, Squid, ... but also mail or ftp servers.

This program can measure visits, unique vistors, authenticated users, pages,
domains/countries, OS busiest times, robot visits, type of files, search
engines/keywords used, visits duration, HTTP errors and more...
Statistics can be updated from a browser or your scheduler.
The program also supports virtual servers, plugins and a lot of features.

With the default configuration, the statistics are available:
http://localhost/awstats/awstats.pl

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Update Information:

added more hardening in parsing input data
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Nov 16 2012 Petr Lautrbach <plautrba at redhat.com> 7.0-9
- fix potential XSS attacks - CVE-2012-4547 (#871159)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #871159 - CVE-2012-4547 awstats: potentially susceptible to XSS attacks
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871159
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update awstats' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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