openSUSE Security Update : axel (openSUSE-2020-778)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 137227

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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 progress output flushing

Update to version 2.17.4 :

- Fixed build with bionic libc (Android)

- TCP Fast Open support on Linux

- TCP code cleanup

- Removed dependency on libm

- Data types and format strings cleanup

- String handling cleanup

- Format string checking GCC attributes added

- Buildsystem fixes and improvements

- Updates to the documentation

- Updated all translations

- Fixed Footnotes in documentation

- Fixed a typo in README.md

Update to version 2.17.3 :

- Builds now use canonical host triplet instead of `uname
-s`

- Fixed build on Darwin / Mac OS X

- Fixed download loops caused by last byte pointer being off by one

- Fixed linking issues (i18n and posix threads)

- Updated build instructions

- Code cleanup

- Added autoconf-archive to building instructions

Update to version 2.17.2 :

- Fixed HTTP request-ranges to be zero-based

- Fixed typo 'too may' -> 'too many'

- Replaced malloc + memset calls with calloc

- Sanitize progress bar buffer len passed to memset

Update to version 2.17.1 :

- Fixed comparison error in axel_divide

- Make sure maxconns is at least 1

Update to version 2.17 :

- Fixed composition of URLs in redirections

- Fixed request range calculation

- Updated all translations

- Updated build documentation

- Major code cleanup

- Cleanup of alternate progress output

- Removed global string buffers

- Fixed min and max macros

- Moved User-Agent header to conf->add_header

- Use integers for speed ratio and delay calculation

- Added support for parsing IPv6 literal hostname

- Fixed filename extraction from URL

- Fixed request-target message to proxy

- Handle secure protocol's schema even with SSL disabled

- Fixed Content-Disposition filename value decoding

- Strip leading hyphens in extracted filenames

Solution

Update the affected axel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172159

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 137227

File Name: openSUSE-2020-778.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/8/2020

Updated: 3/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13614

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:axel-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:axel-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:axel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/7/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/26/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13614