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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.66598
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1957-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'aria2' package(s) announced via the DSA-1957-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'aria2' package(s) announced via the DSA-1957-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that aria2, a high speed download utility, is prone to a buffer overflow in the DHT routing code, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

The oldstable distribution (etch) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.14.0-1+lenny1. Binaries for powerpc, arm, ia64 and hppa will be provided once they are available.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your aria2 packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'aria2' package(s) on Debian 5.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
10.0

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-3575
BugTraq ID: 36332
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36332
Debian Security Information: DSA-1957 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1957
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:226
http://secunia.com/advisories/37971
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG

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