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Alma Linux: CVE-2024-38428: Moderate: wget security update (ALSA-2024-6192)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2024-38428: Moderate: wget security update (ALSA-2024-6192)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/16/2024
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
09/10/2024

Description

url.c in GNU Wget through 1.24.5 mishandles semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, and thus there may be insecure behavior in which data that was supposed to be in the userinfo subcomponent is misinterpreted to be part of the host subcomponent.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-wget

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