[Secure-testing-team] Bug#857073: wget: CVE-2017-6508: CRLF injection in the url_parse function in url.c

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: wget
Version: 1.16-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2017-03/msg00018.html

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for wget.

CVE-2017-6508[0]:
| CRLF injection vulnerability in the url_parse function in url.c in Wget
| through 1.19.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers
| via CRLF sequences in the host subcomponent of a URL.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6508
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6508
[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2017-03/msg00018.html
[2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=4d729e322fae359a1aefaafec1144764a54e8ad4

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore