Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1227
Advisory Release Date: 2019-06-11 23:19 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-06-13 18:46 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
Buffer overflow in GNU Wget allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or may execute an arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2019-5953)
Affected Packages:
wget
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update wget to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
wget-1.14-18.amzn2.1.aarch64
wget-debuginfo-1.14-18.amzn2.1.aarch64
i686:
wget-1.14-18.amzn2.1.i686
wget-debuginfo-1.14-18.amzn2.1.i686
src:
wget-1.14-18.amzn2.1.src
x86_64:
wget-1.14-18.amzn2.1.x86_64
wget-debuginfo-1.14-18.amzn2.1.x86_64