vulnerability
Arch Linux: Content spoofing (CVE-2017-6508)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Mar 7, 2017 | Jul 11, 2025 | Nov 27, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 7, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025
Description
A CRLF injection flaw was found in the way wget < 1.19.2 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.
Solution
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
- CVE-2017-6508
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-6508
- URL-http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=4d729e322fae359a1aefaafec1144764a54e8ad4
- URL-http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2017-03/msg00018.html
- URL-http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96877
- URL-https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201710-34
- URL-https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-16
- CWE-93
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