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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1904-1 (wget)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to wget announced via advisory DSA 1904-1.

Insight

Insight

Daniel Stenberg discovered that wget, a network utility to retrieve files from the Web using http(s) and ftp, is vulnerable to the Null Prefix Attacks Against SSL/TLS Certificates published at the Blackhat conference some time ago. This allows an attacker to perform undetected man-in-the-middle attacks via a crafted ITU-T X.509 certificate with an injected null byte in the Common Name field. For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.10.2-2+etch1. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.11.4-2+lenny1. For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.12-1. We recommend that you upgrade your wget packages.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201904-1

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