Debian DLA-1760-1 : wget security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 124218

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Kusano Kazuhiko discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the handling of Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRI) in wget, a network utility to retrieve files from the web, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service when recursively downloading from an untrusted server.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1.16-1+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your wget packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected wget package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 124218

File Name: debian_DLA-1760.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/23/2019

Updated: 5/31/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5953

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5953

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