PT-2019-1762 · Gnu+5 · Wget+5

Kusano Kazuhiko · Published 2019-04-03 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2019-5953

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Wget versions 1.20.1 and earlier

Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the Wget console utility, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service. The vulnerability is associated with the handling of specially crafted data in multibyte encoding returned by a server.

Recommendations For GNU Wget versions 1.20.1 and earlier, update to version 1.20.3 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of Wget until the update is applied.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2019-1590

BDU:2019-01402

CESA-2019_0983

CESA-2019_1228

CVE-2019-5953

DLA-1760-1

DSA-4425-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1236-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_1236-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_1281-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11510-1

RHSA-2019:0983

RHSA-2019:1228

RHSA-2019:2979

RHSA-2019:3168

RHSA-2019_0983

RHSA-2019_1228

SUSE-SU-2019:0925-1

SUSE-SU-2019:0956-1

SUSE-SU-2019_0956-1

USN-3943-1

USN-3943-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

Wget

References · 44

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5953 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5953 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1760-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5953 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2019-5953 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20483 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3168 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:0925-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-19 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3943-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2979 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3943-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-5953 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se15-bulletin-20201201SE15 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se16-bulletin-20220829SE16 · Vendor Advisory