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.