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DEBIAN: 2021:2054-2 Low: wget Security Vulnerability Resolution

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Calendar Grey May 26, 2021
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Security patch for wget focusing on mild severity vulnerabilities found in Red Hat distributions, providing resolutions and improvements.
An update that fixes one vulnerability, contains one feature is now available

Summary

This update for curl fixes the following issues: - CVE-2021-22898: Fixed curl TELNET stack contents disclosure (bsc#1186114). - Allow partial chain verification [jsc#SLE-17956] * Have intermediate certificates in the trust store be treated as trust-anchors, in the same way as self-signed root CA certificates are. This allows users to verify servers using the intermediate cert only, instead of needing the whole chain. * Set FLAG_TRUSTED_FIRST unconditionally. * Do not check partial chains with CRL check. Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE MicroOS 5.0: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.0-2021-1762=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity curl security trust verification content disclosure SUSE MicroOS SUSE Enterprise Module

References

#1186114 SLE-17956

Cross- CVE-2021-22898

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-22898 (SUSE): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected Products:

SUSE MicroOS 5.0

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-22898.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186114

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:1762-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity curl security trust verification content disclosure SUSE MicroOS SUSE Enterprise Module

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