Advisories » MGASA-2017-0104

Updated wget packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 04 Apr 2017
Modification date: 04 Apr 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-6508

Description

Wget up untill version 1.19.1 does not ensure control characters are not
used in the hostname part of a url. This security update rejects control
characters in host part of a url.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20613
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-03/msg00113.html
• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2017-03/msg00018.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6508

SRPMS

5/core

• wget-1.15-5.2.mga5