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Fedora 26 : wget (2017-38c3781b89)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 101612

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- fixed CVE-2017-6508 CRLF injection in the url_parse function in url.c

 - fixed use of .netrc

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

Solution

Update the affected wget package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-38c3781b89

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 101612

File Name: fedora_2017-38c3781b89.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wget, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6508