SUSE SLES11 Security Update : wget (SUSE-SU-2018:1367-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 110034

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for wget fixes the following issues :

- CVE-2018-0494: Fixed Cookie injection vulnerability by checking for and joining continuation lines.
(bsc#1092061)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-wget-13619=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SECURITY:zypper in -t patch secsp3-wget-13619=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-wget-13619=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1092061

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0494/

http://www.nessus.org/u?e11676b4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 110034

File Name: suse_SU-2018-1367-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/23/2018

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wget, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/22/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/6/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0494