ALAS-2019-1194


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1194
Advisory Release Date: 2019-04-17 18:51 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-04-19 16:26 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in GNU Wget. An attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or may execute an arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-5953)


Affected Packages:

wget


Issue Correction:
Run yum update wget to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    wget-1.18-5.30.amzn1.i686
    wget-debuginfo-1.18-5.30.amzn1.i686

src:
    wget-1.18-5.30.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    wget-debuginfo-1.18-5.30.amzn1.x86_64
    wget-1.18-5.30.amzn1.x86_64