[Mageia-dev] slight security improvement: should we update aria2 to 1.11.2?

Thierry Vignaud thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
Tue May 24 10:07:07 CEST 2011


Hi

We are currently shiping aria2-1.11.1.

However latest version is 1.11.2 which slightly improve security when
using authenticated
media by hiding them from process viewers (ps, ...):

http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=159897
"The username and password specified in command-line are now masked with
"*" immediately after parsed, so that ps cannot show username and password."

Since that does not happen for most users and since we don't provide auth media,
that's not a immediate concern, so should we update for Mageia 1?

See you


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