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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : wget (SUSE-SU-2017:0799-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 97914

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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: Security issue fixed :

 - CVE-2017-6508: (url_parse): Reject control characters in host part of URL (bsc#1028301).

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 YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-wget-13035=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SECURITY:zypper in -t patch secsp3-wget-13035=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-wget-13035=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1028301

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-6508/

http://www.nessus.org/u?216ecb1b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 97914

File Name: suse_SU-2017-0799-1.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/23/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6508