Fedora 33: FEDORA-2021-90b4716992 Moderate: Axel TLS Hostname Breach

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.

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

* 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

[ 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

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-90b4716992' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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