6.8 - DSA-2088

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	New wget packages fix potential code execution

Informations
Name	DSA-2088	First vendor Publication	2010-08-05
Vendor	Debian	Last vendor Modification	2010-08-05
Severity (Vendor)	N/A	Revision	1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
Base Score	NA	Environmental Score	NA
impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score	6.8	Attack Range	Network
Cvss Impact Score	6.4	Attack Complexity	Medium
Cvss Expoit Score	8.6	Authentication	None Required
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Detail

It was discovered that wget, a command line tool for downloading files from the WWW, uses server-provided file names when creating local files. This may lead to code execution in some scenarios.

After this update, wget will ignore server-provided file names. You can restore the old behavior in cases where it is not desirable by invoking wget with the new --use-server-file-name option.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.11.4-2+lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your wget package.