Security Advisory and Request for Wget Update: 1.10.2

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Tue Nov 15 20:53:00 GMT 2005


Alan,

Thanks for the heads up, but next time I'll take the notice without the 
lip, thank you.

Harold

Alan Dobkin wrote:
> FYI, Wget 1.10.2 was released over a month ago (on October 13, 2005):
> 
> 
>>The latest stable version of Wget is 1.10.2. This release contains
>>fixes for a major security problem: a remotely exploitable buffer
>>overflow vulnerability in the NTLM authentication code. All Wget users
>>are strongly encouraged to upgrade their Wget installation to the last
>>release.
>>
> 
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg08295.html
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg08300.html
> 
> It seems that Harold Hunt is the new wget maintainer, and I do not wish
> to take his place, but new releases such as this (especially security
> updates that affect Windows) should be provided in a timely manner.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alan
> 
> P. S. -- Apparently this is the same bug that also affected cURL, which
> has no current maintainer....
> 
> 
> On 10/23/2005 3:46 PM, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> 
>>cURL is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could lead to the
>>execution of arbitrary code.
>>
>>Solution:  upgrade to 7.15.0.
>>
>>Workaround until solved:
>>Disable NTLM authentication by not using the --anyauth or --ntlm
>>options when using cURL (the command line version). Workarounds for
>>programs that use the cURL library depend on the configuration options
>>presented by those programs.
>>
>>http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200510-19.xml
>>http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3185
>>http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=322&type=vulnerabilities
>>
>>
>>Yaakov
> 
> 



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