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A axel security update has been released for Fedora 33.



SECURITY: Fedora 33 Update: axel-2.17.10-1.fc33


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-90b4716992
2021-05-05 00:52:51.707432
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Name : axel
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 2.17.10
Release : 1.fc33
URL :   https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel
Summary : Light command line download accelerator for Linux and Unix
Description :
Axel tries to accelerate HTTP/FTP downloading process by using
multiple connections for one file. It can use multiple mirrors for a
download. Axel has no dependencies and is lightweight, so it might
be useful as a wget clone on byte-critical systems.

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Update Information:

Update to new release. 2.17.8+ include the security fix for CVE-2020-13614
axel: TLS implementation lacks hostname verification leading to possible
confidentiality breach
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Apr 26 2021 Frantisek Zatloukal - 2.17.10-1
- Updated to axel-2.17.10
* Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.16-7
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1848468 - CVE-2020-13614 axel: TLS implementation lacks hostname verification leading to possible confidentiality breach [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1848468
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-90b4716992' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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