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RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: wget security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0983-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0983
Issue date: 2019-05-07
CVE Names: CVE-2019-5953
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1. Summary:
An update for wget is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
The wget packages provide the GNU Wget file retrieval utility for HTTP,
HTTPS, and FTP protocols.
Security Fix(es):
* wget: do_conversion() heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability
(CVE-2019-5953)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1695679 - CVE-2019-5953 wget: do_conversion() heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source:
wget-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.src.rpm
aarch64:
wget-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.aarch64.rpm
wget-debuginfo-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.aarch64.rpm
wget-debugsource-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
wget-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.ppc64le.rpm
wget-debuginfo-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.ppc64le.rpm
wget-debugsource-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
wget-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.s390x.rpm
wget-debuginfo-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.s390x.rpm
wget-debugsource-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
wget-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.x86_64.rpm
wget-debuginfo-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.x86_64.rpm
wget-debugsource-1.19.5-7.el8_0.1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5953
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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