Bug#1025410: awstats: CVE-2022-46391: XSS due to printing response from Net::XWhois without proper checks

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Source: awstats
Version: 7.8-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/eldy/AWStats/pull/226
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for awstats.

CVE-2022-46391[0]:
| AWStats 7.x through 7.8 allows XSS in the hostinfo plugin due to
| printing a response from Net::XWhois without proper checks.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-46391
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-46391
[1] https://github.com/eldy/AWStats/pull/226

Regards,
Salvatore