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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53751
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-706-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'axel' package(s) announced via the DSA-706-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'axel' package(s) announced via the DSA-706-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Ulf Harnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a buffer overflow in axel, a light download accelerator. 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.

Affected Software/OS:
'axel' package(s) on Debian 3.0.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-0390
BugTraq ID: 13059
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13059
Debian Security Information: DSA-706 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-706
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200504-09.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/14831
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