glsa-201806-01.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201806-01">
  <title>GNU Wget: Cookie injection</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerablity in GNU Wget could allow arbitrary cookies to be
    injected.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">wget</product>
  <announced>2018-06-13</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-06-13</revised>
  <bug>655216</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/wget" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.19.5</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.19.5</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP,
      HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A vulnerability was discovered in GNU Wget’s resp_new function which
      does not validate \r\n sequences in continuation lines.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could inject arbitrary cookie entry requests.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All GNU Wget users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/wget-1.19.5"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0494">CVE-2018-0494</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-06-12T02:50:06Z">irishluck83</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-06-13T20:52:56Z">irishluck83</metadata>
</glsa>