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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2018-11b37d7a68 Critical Wget Cookie Injection

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Calendar Grey May 11, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Latest wget update for Fedora 28 resolves serious cookie exploitation vulnerability patched in release 1.19.5.
- New upstream version fixing CVE

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.

- New upstream version fixing CVE

* 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 #1575635 - CVE-2018-0494 wget: Cookie injection allows malicious website to write arbitrary cookie entries into cookie jar [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575635

[ 2 ] Bug #1575443 - wget-1.19.5 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575443

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-11b37d7a68' 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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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 1.19.5
Release: 1.fc28
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Summary: A utility for retrieving files using the HTTP or FTP protocols

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