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Bug#: 88264
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Resolution: FIXED
Assigned To: Gentoo Security <security@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Jean-François Brunette (RETIRED) <formula7@gentoo.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2005-04-07 08:09 0000 
CVE reference:	CAN-2005-0390

Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Axel, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the HTTP redirection handling. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted response.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Solution:
Update to version 1.0b.
http://wilmer.gaast.net/downloads/axel-1.0b.tar.gz

------- Comment #1 From Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-04-08 03:12:08 0000 ------- 
Dead maintainer, no metadata, no herd...
dragonheart: feel like bumping ?

------- Comment #2 From Aaron Walker (RETIRED) 2005-04-11 10:19:40 0000 ------- 
Bump0rd.  stable on x86. CC'd archs please mark stable.

------- Comment #3 From Michael Hanselmann (hansmi) (RETIRED) 2005-04-11 11:28:51 0000 ------- 
Stable on ppc.

------- Comment #4 From Markus Rothe 2005-04-11 11:57:03 0000 ------- 
stable on ppc64

------- Comment #5 From Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2005-04-11 13:30:26 0000 ------- 
sparc stable.

------- Comment #6 From Matthias Geerdsen 2005-04-12 13:28:41 0000 ------- 
GLSA 200504-09

ppc-macos, pls mark stable to benefit from the GLSA

------- Comment #7 From Fabian Groffen 2005-07-10 01:48:23 0000 ------- 
axel-1.0b compiles and works with and without keyword "debug" on OSX Tiger.

------- Comment #8 From Lina Pezzella (RETIRED) 2005-07-10 10:08:13 0000 ------- 
Stable ppc-macos.
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