Debian DSA-4008-1 : wget - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 104223

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Antti Levomaeki, Christian Jalio, Joonas Pihlaja and Juhani Eronen discovered two buffer overflows in the HTTP protocol handler of the Wget download tool, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code when connecting to a malicious HTTP server.

Solution

Upgrade the wget packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.16-1+deb8u4.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.18-5+deb9u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/wget

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/wget

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4008

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104223

File Name: debian_DSA-4008.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/30/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wget, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 10/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-13089, CVE-2017-13090

DSA: 4008