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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.10.2024.0240
Category:Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
Title:Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2024-0240)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'wget' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2024-0240 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'wget' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2024-0240 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
url.c in GNU Wget through 1.24.5 mishandles semicolons in the userinfo
subcomponent of a URI, and thus there may be insecure behavior in which
data that was supposed to be in the userinfo subcomponent is
misinterpreted to be part of the host subcomponent. (CVE-2024-38428)

Affected Software/OS:
'wget' package(s) on Mageia 9.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
9.4

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2024-38428
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=ed0c7c7e0e8f7298352646b2fd6e06a11e242ace
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2024-06/msg00005.html
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