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Fedora 25: 2017-22f1a8404e Critical: Wget CRLF Injection Fix

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Calendar Grey June 3, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Explore Fedora's recent patch for wget, which targets CVE-2017-6508 to fix CRLF injection vulnerabilities, boosting overall security.
Fixed CVE-2017-6508: CRLF injection in the url_parse function in url.c

Summary

GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP or

FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the

background while you are logged out, recursive retrieval of

directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp

storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with

HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections,

support for Proxy servers, and configurability.

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

[ 1 ] Bug #1429984 - CVE-2017-6508 wget: CRLF injection in the url_parse function in url.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429984

su -c 'dnf upgrade wget' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.18
Release: 3.fc25
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Summary: A utility for retrieving files using the HTTP or FTP protocols

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