Bug 1429984 (CVE-2017-6508) - CVE-2017-6508 wget: CRLF injection in the url_parse function in url.c
Summary: CVE-2017-6508 wget: CRLF injection in the url_parse function in url.c
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-6508
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1429986
Blocks: 1429985
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-03-07 15:38 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:08 UTC (History)
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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.
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Last Closed: 2017-03-09 05:28:28 UTC
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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]
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