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Debian DSA-1957-1 : aria2 - buffer overflow

critical Nessus Plugin ID 44822

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the aria2 packages.

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.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551070

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1957

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 44822

File Name: debian_DSA-1957.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:aria2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 12/28/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3575

DSA: 1957