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Debian: DSA-2047-1 Urgent Aria2 Input Validation Vulnerability Issue

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Calendar Grey May 17, 2010
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Learn the methods to address the aria2 path traversal vulnerability on Debian platforms by implementing timely updates and robust security protocols.
A vulnerability was discovered in aria2, a download client
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security advisory critical debian directory traversal input sanitising aria2

Summary

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.14.0-1+lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your aria2 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 5.0 alias lenny

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1343630 ae853240ee88e373a138021613e28cb1
Size/MD5 checksum: 1102 66f40f6d5908ed4caef208b258eb7617
Size/MD5 checksum: 21863 b2b9fec5b9a7eccd68f12ad29804cb9c

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD5 checksum: 1272534 7783017240e59e1f8cd5bbb3...

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security advisory critical debian directory traversal input sanitising aria2

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