DSA-1957-1 aria2 -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1957-1 aria2 -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

28 Dec 2009

Affected Packages:

aria2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 551070.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-3575.

More information:

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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/aria2/aria2_0.14.0-1+lenny1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/aria2/aria2_0.14.0-1+lenny1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/aria2/aria2_0.14.0.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/aria2/aria2_0.14.0-1+lenny1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/aria2/aria2_0.14.0-1+lenny1_amd64.deb

ARM EABI:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/aria2/aria2_0.14.0-1+lenny1_armel.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/aria2/aria2_0.14.0-1+lenny1_i386.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/aria2/aria2_0.14.0-1+lenny1_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/aria2/aria2_0.14.0-1+lenny1_mipsel.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/aria2/aria2_0.14.0-1+lenny1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/aria2/aria2_0.14.0-1+lenny1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.