Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53869
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-145-1 (wget)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to wget announced via advisory USN-145-1. A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) The following packages are affected: wget Jan Minar discovered a path traversal vulnerability in wget. If the name .. was a valid host name (which can be achieved with a malicious or poisoned domain name server), it was possible to trick wget into creating downloaded files into arbitrary locations with arbitrary names. For example, wget could silently overwrite the users ~ /.bashrc and other configuration files which are executed automatically. (CVE-2004-1487) Jan Minar also discovered that wget printed HTTP response strings from the server to the terminal without any filtering. Malicious HTTP servers could exploit this to send arbitrary terminal sequences and strings which would then be executed and printed to the console. This could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user invoking wget. (CVE-2004-1488) Hugo Vazquez Caramés discovered a race condition when writing output files. After wget determined the output file name, but before the file was actually opened (the time window is determined by the delay of the first received data packet), a local attacker with with write permission to the download directory could create a symbolic link with the name of the output file. This could be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions of the user invoking wget. (CVE-2004-2014) Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1.9.1-4ubuntu0.1 (for Ubuntu 4.10), or 1.9.1-10ubuntu2.1 (for Ubuntu 5.04). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-145-1 Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 5.0
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-1487 BugTraq ID: 11871 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11871 Bugtraq: 20041209 wget: Arbitrary file overwriting/appending/creating and other vulnerabilities (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110269474112384&w=2 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261755 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11682 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-771.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1012472 https://usn.ubuntu.com/145-1/ XForce ISS Database: wget-file-overwrite(18420) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18420 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-1488 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9750 http://secunia.com/advisories/20960 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:016 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_16_sr.html XForce ISS Database: wget-terminal-overwrite(18421) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18421 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-2014 BugTraq ID: 10361 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10361 Bugtraq: 20040516 Wget race condition vulnerability (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108481268725276&w=2 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:204 http://marc.info/?l=wget&m=108483270227139&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=wget&m=108482747906833&w=2 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9830 http://secunia.com/advisories/17399 XForce ISS Database: wget-lock-race-condition(16167) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16167
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