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If through a vulnerability assessment, a network security issue is detected for the vulnerability below, applying the appropriate security patches in a timely matter is very important. If you have detected that your system has already been compromised, following CERT's Network Security recovery document will assist with recommended steps for system recovery. Home >> Browse Vulnerability Assessment Database >> Ubuntu Local Security Checks >> USN145-1 : wget vulnerabilities Vulnerability Assessment Details
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USN145-1 : wget vulnerabilities |
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wget vulnerabilities Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment Summary : The remote package "wget" is missing a security patch. Description : Jan Minar discovered a path traversal vulnerability in wget. If the name ".." was a valid host name (which can be achieved with a malicious or poisoned domain name server), it was possible to trick wget into creating downloaded files into arbitrary locations with arbitrary names. For example, wget could silently overwrite the users ~/.bashrc and other configuration files which are executed automatically. (CVE-2004-1487) Jan Minar also discovered that wget printed HTTP response strings from the server to the terminal without any filtering. Malicious HTTP servers could exploit this to send arbitrary terminal sequences and strings which would then be executed and printed to the console. This could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution with the rights of the user invoking wget. (CVE-2004-1488) Hugo Vázquez Caramés discovered a race condition when writing output files. After wget acertaind the output file name, but before the file was actually opened (the time window is acertaind by the delay of th [...] Solution : Upgrade to : - wget-1.9.1-10ubuntu2.1 (Ubuntu 5.04) Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2005 Michel Arboi |
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