Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-6508  

A CRLF injection flaw was found in the way wget < 1.19.2 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.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Content spoofing

Description

A CRLF injection flaw was found in the way wget < 1.19.2 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.

AVG-473 wget 1.19.1-2 1.19.2-1 Critical Fixed

29 Oct 2017 ASA-201710-34 AVG-473 wget Critical multiple issues

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2017-03/msg00018.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-6508
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=4d729e322fae359a1aefaafec1144764a54e8ad4