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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2019-d1b5cf0055 moderate: wget Information Exposure

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Calendar Grey January 11, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 28 has released an update to mitigate a security concern found in wget, specifically remedying the information disclosure issue recognized in CVE-2018-20483.
Update to upstream release 1.20.1 to fix CVE-2018-20483.

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.

Update to upstream release 1.20.1 to fix CVE-2018-20483.

* Wed Jan 2 2019 Tomas Hozza - 1.20.1-1

- Update to 1.20.1

- Fix CVE-2018-20483

* Thu Dec 6 2018 Tomas Hozza - 1.20-1

- Update to 1.20

- --secure-protocol=TLSv1_3 now works (#1623994)

* Wed Aug 29 2018 Tomas Hozza - 1.19.5-5

- Avoid creating empty wget-log when using -O and -q in background (#1484411)

* Tue Aug 28 2018 Tomas Korbar - 1.19.5-4

- Add zlib-devel to buildrequires (#1612891)

* Sat Jul 14 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.19.5-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

* Tue Jun 26 2018 Tomas Hozza - 1.19.5-2

- Don't install info files in scriptlets

* Wed May 9 2018 Tomas Hozza - 1.19.5-1

- Update to 1.19.5 fixing CVE-2018-0494

* Thu Apr 26 2018 Tomas Hozza - 1.19.4-3

- Added gcc as an explicit BuildRequires

[ 1 ] Bug #1662705 - CVE-2018-20483 wget: Information exposure in set_file_metadata function in xattr.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1662705

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-d1b5cf0055' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 28
Version: 1.20.1
Release: 1.fc28
Summary: A utility for retrieving files using the HTTP or FTP protocols

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