Summary
The remote host is missing an update to axel
announced via advisory DSA 706-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20706-1
Insight
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.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-0390 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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