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Ubuntu 12.04 ESM USN-3464-2 Critical Wget Denial Of Service Threat

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3465-1 addresses weaknesses in OpenSSL, mitigating risks of data breaches and unauthorized access.
Several security issues were fixed in Wget.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Wget.

Software Description:

- wget: retrieves files from the web

Details:

USN-3464-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Wget. This update

provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

 Antti Levomäki, Christian Jalio, and Joonas Pihlaja discovered that

 Wget incorrectly handled certain HTTP responses. A remote attacker

 could use this issue to cause Wget to crash, resulting in a denial of

 service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. 

 (CVE-2017-13089, CVE 2017-13090)

 Dawid Golunski discovered that Wget incorrectly handled recursive or

 mirroring mode. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to

 bypass intended access list restrictions. (CVE-2016-7098)

 Orange Tsai discovered that Wget incorrectly handled CRLF sequences in

 HTTP headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to

 inject arbitrary HTTP headers. (CVE-2017-6508)

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM:
  wget                            1.13.4-2ubuntu1.5

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References

 

 

  CVE-2016-7098, CVE-2017-13089, CVE-2017-13090, CVE-2017-6508

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