- --------------------------------------------------------------------------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
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------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
- --------------------------------  Source archives:

          Size/MD5 checksum:      562 9e458f6d5f1f008ea845dca78e92683c
          Size/MD5 checksum:     3390 055745f2cf06c3c91aea35186dd83d19
          Size/MD5 checksum:    44140 2d94c0b36b374834567f1fcec5f89119

  Architecture independent components:

          Size/MD5 checksum:     3838 954e797b55eb105bbe3ef57972b10071

  Alpha architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    41894 460f6ab4e5884cb055cfb37d84029e32

  ARM architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    33796 e846b964a389aad2e60efca3c0a994e4

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    33304 0f7124e13654896568ed1d04b19c221f

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    49084 d50de2a63ec516ca7d420e55c4f66927

  HP Precision architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    38552 01fbdbc4a778d6bc1964430567b96dc5

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    31870 e07bc8f8895a4a03de20dfa3ecb427fe

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    37086 0a7a17857b0b2f5d46cae69394bc44aa

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    37208 e7370f632d2d84e18a59d923b4c48aec

  PowerPC architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    36678 24f2fe3698ce4d4c64b0f266233874a9

  IBM S/390 architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    34320 2aa3fc2c0e09ba46de4f3fb954580380

  Sun Sparc architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    37266 b5193597168fe3430754d480b29f02be


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp:  dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org