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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.704195
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4195-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'wget' package(s) announced via the DSA-4195-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'wget' package(s) announced via the DSA-4195-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Harry Sintonen discovered that wget, a network utility to retrieve files from the web, does not properly handle 'rn' from continuation lines while parsing the Set-Cookie HTTP header. A malicious web server could use this flaw to inject arbitrary cookies to the cookie jar file, adding new or replacing existing cookie values.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.16-1+deb8u5.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.18-5+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your wget packages.

For the detailed security status of wget please refer to its security tracker page at: [link moved to references]

Affected Software/OS:
'wget' package(s) on Debian 8, Debian 9.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
4.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-0494
BugTraq ID: 104129
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104129
Debian Security Information: DSA-4195 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4195
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44601/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-01
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=1fc9c95ec144499e69dc8ec76dbe07799d7d82cd
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2018-05/msg00020.html
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53763
https://sintonen.fi/advisories/gnu-wget-cookie-injection.txt
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00006.html
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2018:3052
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3052
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040838
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3643-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3643-2/
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