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Fedora 26 Wget Security Update: 2017-38c3781b89 Critical CRLF Injection

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Calendar Grey June 9, 2017
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Fedora 26's wget update enhances security by fixing CRLF injection vulnerabilities, improving input validation and sanitization to reduce exploit risks.
* fixed CVE-2017-6508 CRLF injection in the url_parse function in url.c * fixed use of .netrc

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 * fixed

use of .netrc

[ 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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 1.19.1
Release: 3.fc26
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Summary: A utility for retrieving files using the HTTP or FTP protocols

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