Gentoo Linux GLSA 200910-01 Normal: Wget Man-in-the-Middle Risk
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October 20, 2009
An error in the X.509 certificate handling of Wget might enable remote attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200910-01
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Wget: Certificate validation error
Date: October 20, 2009
Bugs: #286058
ID: 200910-01
Synopsis
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An error in the X.509 certificate handling of Wget might enable remote
attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks.
Background
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GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP,
HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-misc/wget < 1.12 >= 1.12
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The vendor reported that Wget does not properly handle Common Name (CN)
fields in X.509 certificates ...
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