Name | CVE-2024-38428 |
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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Debian Bugs | 1073523 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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wget (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.16-1+deb8u7 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1.18-5+deb9u3 | vulnerable |
| buster | 1.20.1-1.1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 1.21-1+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1.21.3-1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 1.24.5-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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wget | source | (unstable) | 1.24.5-2 | | | 1073523 |
Notes
[bookworm] - wget <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - wget <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - wget <postponed> (Minor issue, infoleak in limited conditions)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2024-06/msg00005.html
Fixed by: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=ed0c7c7e0e8f7298352646b2fd6e06a11e242ace
[stretch] - wget <postponed> (Minor issue, infoleak in limited conditions)
[jessie] - wget <postponed> (Minor issue, infoleak in limited conditions)