CRLF Injection Affecting wget package, versions <1.18-5
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.29% (70th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-WGET-300429
- published 7 Mar 2017
- disclosed 7 Mar 2017
How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9 wget to version 1.18-5 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wget package and not the wget package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
CRLF injection vulnerability in the url_parse function in url.c in Wget through 1.19.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via CRLF sequences in the host subcomponent of a URL.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6508
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6508
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-16
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=4d729e322fae359a1aefaafec1144764a54e8ad4
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2017-03/msg00018.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96877
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-6508
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