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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2019-5953: Vulnerability in Wget

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2019-5953: Vulnerability in Wget

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/17/2019
Created
09/18/2019
Added
09/17/2019
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

Buffer overflow in GNU Wget 1.20.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or may execute an arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-web-wget-1-20-3-11-4-13-0-1-1-0

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