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openSUSE: 2020:0785-1 Moderate: axel SSL Certificate Hostnames Issue

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This Fedora Security Update rectifies a TLS authentication flaw in wget, improving both robustness and safety. Discover further details.
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...

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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 Backports SLE-15-SP1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-785=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

axel-2.17.8-bp151.4.3.1

References

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1172159

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0785-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1

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