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Debian DSA-2047-1 : aria2 - insufficient input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 46352

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Synopsis

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

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in aria2, a download client. The 'name' attribute of the 'file' element of metalink files is not properly sanitised before using it to download files. If a user is tricked into downloading from a specially crafted metalink file, this can be exploited to download files to directories outside of the intended download directory.

Solution

Upgrade the aria2 package.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.14.0-1+lenny2.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2047

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 46352

File Name: debian_DSA-2047.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/18/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1512

BID: 40142

DSA: 2047