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Debian Lenny: DSA-1957-1 Critical: Aria2 Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey December 28, 2009
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4178-1 details a stack overflow in wget enabling remote code execution on various platforms.
It was discovered that aria2, a high speed download utility, is prone to a buffer overflow in the DHT routing code, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code

Summary


For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.14.0-1+lenny1. Binaries for powerpc, arm, ia64 and hppa will
be provided once they are available.

The oldstable distribution (etch) is not affected by this problem.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.0-1.


We recommend that you upgrade your aria2 packages.


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 5.0 alias lenny

Debian (stable)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips,...

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