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openSUSE: 2017:2884-1 Critical Update: Wget Stack Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant patch for openSUSE resolves vulnerabilities in curl, tackling possible heap overflows resulting from improper validations.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for wget fixes the following security issues:

- CVE-2017-13089,CVE-2017-13090: Missing checks for negative

remaining_chunk_size in skip_short_body and fd_read_body could cause

stack buffer overflows, which could have been exploited by malicious

servers. (bsc#1064715,bsc#1064716)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory important fix stack overflow wget openSUSE

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-1210=1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-1210=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

wget-1.14-12.1

wget-debuginfo-1.14-12.1

wget-debugsource-1.14-12.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

wget-1.14-8.6.1

wget-debuginfo-1.14-8.6.1

wget-debugsource-1.14-8.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13089.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13090.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1064715

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1064716

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:2884-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 42.2 .

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security advisory important fix stack overflow wget openSUSE

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