New axel packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux

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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
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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
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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
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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.