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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201706-16">
<title>GNU Wget: Header injection</title>
<synopsis>A header injection vulnerability in GNU Wget might allow remote
attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">wget</product>
<announced>2017-06-20</announced>
<revised count="1">2017-06-20</revised>
<bug>612326</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-misc/wget" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.19.1-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.19.1-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP,
HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>It was discovered that there was a header injection vulnerability in GNU
Wget which allowed remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via
CRLF sequences in the host subcomponent of a URL.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A remote attacker could inject arbitrary HTTP headers in requests by
tricking a user running GNU Wget into processing crafted URLs.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All GNU Wget users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/wget-1.19.1-r1"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-6508">CVE-2017-6508</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-03-23T20:33:13Z">whissi</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-06-20T17:09:12Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>
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