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Red Hat Enterprise: RHSA-2019-0983-01 Important: Wget Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 7, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A critical security patch for curl has been released for CentOS 8 to mitigate a potential stack overflow vulnerability.
An update for wget is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The wget packages provide the GNU Wget file retrieval utility for HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.
Security Fix(es):
* wget: do_conversion() heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2019-5953)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow red hat enterprise wget important update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5953 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: wget-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.src.rpm
aarch64: wget-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.aarch64.rpm wget-debuginfo-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.aarch64.rpm wget-debugsource-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: wget-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.ppc64le.rpm wget-debuginfo-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.ppc64le.rpm wget-debugsource-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: wget-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.s390x.rpm wget-debuginfo-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.s390x.rpm wget-debugsource-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: wget-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.x86_64.rpm wget-debuginfo-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.x86_64.rpm wget-debugsource-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0983-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0983
Issue date: 2019-05-07

Topic

An update for wget is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow red hat enterprise wget important update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1695679 - CVE-2019-5953 wget: do_conversion() heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability

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