Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-881
Advisory Release Date: 2017-08-31 15:58 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-08-31 23:07 Pacific
Severity:
Low
Issue Overview:
CRLF injection in the url_parse function in url.c
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. (CVE-2017-6508)
Affected Packages:
wget
Issue Correction:
Run yum update wget to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
wget-debuginfo-1.18-3.27.amzn1.i686
wget-1.18-3.27.amzn1.i686
src:
wget-1.18-3.27.amzn1.src
x86_64:
wget-1.18-3.27.amzn1.x86_64
wget-debuginfo-1.18-3.27.amzn1.x86_64