Fedora 10 Update: aria2-1.3.1-2.fc10
Summary
aria2 is a download utility with resuming and segmented downloading.
Supported protocols are HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/BitTorrent. It also supports Metalink
version 3.0.
Currently it has following features:
- HTTP/HTTPS GET support
- HTTP Proxy support
- HTTP BASIC authentication support
- HTTP Proxy authentication support
- FTP support(active, passive mode)
- FTP through HTTP proxy(GET command or tunneling)
- Segmented download
- Cookie support(currently aria2 ignores "expires")
- It can run as a daemon process.
- BitTorrent protocol support with fast extension.
- Selective download in multi-file torrent
- Metalink version 3.0 support(HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent).
- Limiting download/upload speed
Update Information:
Fixes CVE-2009-3575, A buffer overflow vulnerability described in more detail at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527827
Change Log
* Thu Oct 8 2009 Rahul Sundaram
References
[ 1 ] Bug #527827 - CVE-2009-3575 aria2: buffer overflow vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527827
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update aria2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .