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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1375-1 wget -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

11 May 2018

Affected Packages:

wget

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 898076.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-0494.

More information:

Harry Sintonen have discovered a cookie injection vulnerability in wget caused by insufficient input validation, enabling an external attacker to inject arbitrary cookie values cookie jar file, adding new or replacing existing cookie values.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.13.4-3+deb7u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your wget packages.

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