-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 706-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 13th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : axel Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0390 BugTraq ID : 13059 Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a buffer overflow in axel, a light download accellerator. When reading remote input the program did not check if a part of the input can overflow a buffer and maybe trigger the execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0a-1woody1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0b-1. We recommend that you upgrade your axel package. Upgrade Instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/axel/axel_1.0a-1woody1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 562 9e458f6d5f1f008ea845dca78e92683c http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/axel/axel_1.0a-1woody1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 3390 055745f2cf06c3c91aea35186dd83d19 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/axel/axel_1.0a.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 44140 2d94c0b36b374834567f1fcec5f89119 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/axel/axel-kapt_1.0a-1woody1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3838 954e797b55eb105bbe3ef57972b10071 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/axel/axel_1.0a-1woody1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 41894 460f6ab4e5884cb055cfb37d84029e32 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/axel/axel_1.0a-1woody1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 33796 e846b964a389aad2e60efca3c0a994e4 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/axel/axel_1.0a-1woody1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 33304 0f7124e13654896568ed1d04b19c221f Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/axel/axel_1.0a-1woody1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 49084 d50de2a63ec516ca7d420e55c4f66927 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/axel/axel_1.0a-1woody1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 38552 01fbdbc4a778d6bc1964430567b96dc5 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/axel/axel_1.0a-1woody1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 31870 e07bc8f8895a4a03de20dfa3ecb427fe Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/axel/axel_1.0a-1woody1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 37086 0a7a17857b0b2f5d46cae69394bc44aa Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/axel/axel_1.0a-1woody1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 37208 e7370f632d2d84e18a59d923b4c48aec PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/axel/axel_1.0a-1woody1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 36678 24f2fe3698ce4d4c64b0f266233874a9 IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/axel/axel_1.0a-1woody1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 34320 2aa3fc2c0e09ba46de4f3fb954580380 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/axel/axel_1.0a-1woody1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 37266 b5193597168fe3430754d480b29f02be These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCXOy6W5ql+IAeqTIRAvHNAKCS1HrJ3f0BoJNt/zIKap9BtFjxPACgg4+s WDMoQ78HbXTvFPtSPKidL9s= =KYhB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----