USN-6852-2

It was discovered that Wget incorrectly handled semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI. A remote attacker could possibly trick a user into connecting to a different host than expected.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / wget

Package

Name: wget
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/wget@1.17.1-1ubuntu1.5+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.17.1-1ubuntu1.5+esm1

Affected versions

1.*

1.16.1-1ubuntu1

1.17.1-1ubuntu1

1.17.1-1ubuntu1.1

1.17.1-1ubuntu1.2

1.17.1-1ubuntu1.3

1.17.1-1ubuntu1.4

1.17.1-1ubuntu1.5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1.17.1-1ubuntu1.5+esm1",
            "binary_name": "wget"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / wget

Package

Name: wget
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/wget@1.19.4-1ubuntu2.2+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.19.4-1ubuntu2.2+esm1

Affected versions

1.*

1.19.1-3ubuntu1

1.19.1-3ubuntu1.1

1.19.2-1ubuntu1

1.19.3-2ubuntu1

1.19.4-1ubuntu2

1.19.4-1ubuntu2.1

1.19.4-1ubuntu2.2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1.19.4-1ubuntu2.2+esm1",
            "binary_name": "wget"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}