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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2019-2979-01 Important: Wget Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 8, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Debian has issued a critical patch for curl addressing a stack overflow flaw that could lead to remote code execution.
An update for wget is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update buffer overflow important heap overflow red hat enterprise wget

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.5):
Source: wget-1.14-16.el7_5.1.src.rpm
x86_64: wget-1.14-16.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm wget-debuginfo-1.14-16.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5):
Source: wget-1.14-16.el7_5.1.src.rpm
ppc64: wget-1.14-16.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm wget-debuginfo-1.14-16.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: wget-1.14-16.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm wget-debuginfo-1.14-16.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: wget-1.14-16.el7_5.1.s390x.rpm wget-debuginfo-1.14-16.el7_5.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: wget-1.14-16.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm wget-debuginfo-1.14-16.el7_5.1.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-2019:2979-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2979
Issue date: 2019-10-08

Topic

An update for wget is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5Extended Update Support.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update buffer overflow important heap overflow red hat enterprise wget

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.5) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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