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Fedora 36: HIGH - Axel Encryption Vulnerability (FEDORA-2022-8rf1gh3e34)

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Calendar Grey May 4, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update axel to version 2.17.10 to resolve TLS vulnerabilities and enhance the security of your downloading workflows.
Update to new release

Summary

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

[ 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-2021-5214bd8f14' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 34
Version: 2.17.10
Release: 1.fc34
Summary: Light command line download accelerator for Linux and Unix

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