Bug 1429984 (CVE-2017-6508)

Summary:	CVE-2017-6508 wget: CRLF injection in the url_parse function in url.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	carnil, dkholia, micah, thozza
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A CRLF injection flaw was found in the way wget handled URLs. A remote attacker could use this flaw to inject arbitrary HTTP headers in requests, via CRLF sequences in the host sub-component of a URL, by tricking a user running wget into processing crafted URLs.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1429986
Bug Blocks:	1429985

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-03-07 15:38:00 UTC

CRLF injection vulnerability in the url_parse function in url.c in Wget through allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via CRLF sequences in the host subcomponent of a URL.

References:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2017-03/msg00018.html

Upstream patch:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=4d729e322fae359a1aefaafec1144764a54e8ad4

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-03-07 15:39:18 UTC

Created wget tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1429986]