DSA-2088-1 wget -- missing input sanitization

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2088-1 wget -- missing input sanitization

Date Reported:

05 Aug 2010

Affected Packages:

wget

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 590296.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-2252.

More information:

It was discovered that wget, a command line tool for downloading files from the WWW, uses server-provided file names when creating local files. This may lead to code execution in some scenarios.

After this update, wget will ignore server-provided file names. You can restore the old behavior in cases where it is not desirable by invoking wget with the new --use-server-file-name option.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.11.4-2+lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your wget package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wget/wget_1.11.4.orig.tar.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wget/wget_1.11.4-2+lenny2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wget/wget_1.11.4-2+lenny2.diff.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wget/wget_1.11.4-2+lenny2_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wget/wget_1.11.4-2+lenny2_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wget/wget_1.11.4-2+lenny2_arm.deb

ARM EABI:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wget/wget_1.11.4-2+lenny2_armel.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wget/wget_1.11.4-2+lenny2_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wget/wget_1.11.4-2+lenny2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wget/wget_1.11.4-2+lenny2_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wget/wget_1.11.4-2+lenny2_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wget/wget_1.11.4-2+lenny2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wget/wget_1.11.4-2+lenny2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wget/wget_1.11.4-2+lenny2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wget/wget_1.11.4-2+lenny2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.