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Fedora 29 FEDORA-2019-088875c43a Critical: wget Information Exposure

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Calendar Grey January 4, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notifi
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)

[ 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-2019-088875c43a' 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 29
Version: 1.20.1
Release: 1.fc29
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Summary: A utility for retrieving files using the HTTP or FTP protocols

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