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openSUSE: 2020:0778-1 Moderate Security Update for axel SSL Issue

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A recent patch for the axel tool addresses vulnerabilities linked to SSL validation. It's crucial to update your systems to uphold security standards.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for axel fixes the following issues:

axel was updated to 2.17.8:

* CVE-2020-13614: SSL Certificate Hostnames were not verified (boo#1172159)

* Replaced progressbar line clearing with terminal control sequence

* Fixed parsing of Content-Disposition HTTP header

* Fixed User-Agent HTTP header never being included

Update to version 2.17.7:

- Buildsystem fixes

- Fixed release date for man-pages on BSD

- Explicitly close TCP sockets on SSL connections too

- Fixed HTTP basic auth header generation

- Changed the default progress report to "alternate output mode"

- Improved English in README.md

Update to version 2.17.6:

- Fixed handling of non-recoverable HTTP errors - Cleanup of connection setup code

- Fixed manpage reproducibility issue

- Use tracker instead of PTS from Debian

Update to version 2.17.5:

- Fixed progress indicator misalignment

- Cleaned up the wget-like progress output code

- Improved...

Read the Full Advisory

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-778=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

axel-2.17.8-lp151.3.3.1

axel-debuginfo-2.17.8-lp151.3.3.1

axel-debugsource-2.17.8-lp151.3.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-13614.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1172159

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0778-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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