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 --------------------------------