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Virtuozzo 7 : wget (VZLSA-2019-1228)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 144234

Synopsis

The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.

Description

An update for wget is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The wget packages provide the GNU Wget file retrieval utility for HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.

Security Fix(es) :

* wget: do_conversion() heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2019-5953)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Note that Tenable Network Security has attempted to extract the preceding description block directly from the corresponding Red Hat security advisory. Virtuozzo provides no description for VZLSA advisories. 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

http://www.nessus.org/u?d18acea6

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1228

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 144234

File Name: Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2019-1228.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 12/15/2020

Updated: 2/1/2024

Supported Sensors: 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:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:7, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:wget

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5953