CVE-2019-5953

Summary

CVECVE-2019-5953
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-05-17 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
DescriptionBuffer 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Wget All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
GNU Wget: Arbitrary code execution (GLSA 201908-19) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Wget - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation MISC www.gnu.org Product
JVN#25261088: GNU Wget vulnerable to buffer overflow MISC jvn.jp Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
support.f5.com/csp/article/K14560101 CONFIRM support.f5.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296080 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 13.4.0 Missing (CPUJUL2019)
  • 377023 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for wget (ALINUX2-SA-2019:0033)
  • 377090 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for wget (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0063)
  • 378273 Virtuozzo Linux Security Update for wget (VZLSA-2019:1228)
  • 500738 Alpine Linux Security Update for wget
  • 504514 Alpine Linux Security Update for wget
  • 710141 Gentoo Linux GNU Wget Arbitrary code execution Vulnerability (GLSA 201908-19)
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