Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 20:52:06 +0100
From: (Trustix Secure Linux Advisor) <tsl@trustix.com>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: TSLSA-2002-0089 - wget
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Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2002-0089
Package name: wget
Summary: directory traversal bug
Date: 2002-12-19
Affected versions: TSL 1.5
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Package description:
GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP or
FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the
background while you're logged out, recursive retrieval of
directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp
storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with
HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections,
support for Proxy servers, and configurability.
Problem description:
wget did not check the path sent back by an FTP server allowing an
FTP server to create files containing path elements to higher up in
the directory tree (i.e. "../../").
Action:
We recommend that all systems with this package installed be upgraded.
Please note that if you do not need the functionality provided by this
package, you may want to remove it from your system.
Location:
All TSL updates are available from
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/updates/>;
<URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/updates/>;
About Trustix Secure Linux:
Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers. With focus
on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept safe and up to
date from day one using swup, the automated software updater.
Automatic updates:
Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically
installed using 'swup --upgrade'.
Get SWUP from:
<URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/software/swup/>;
Public testing:
These packages have been available for public testing for some time.
If you want to contribute by testing the various packages in the
testing tree, please feel free to share your findings on the
tsl-discuss mailinglist.
The testing tree is located at
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/testing/>;
<URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/testing/>;
Questions?
Check out our mailing lists:
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/support/>;
Verification:
This advisory along with all TSL packages are signed with the TSL sign key.
This key is available from:
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/TSL-GPG-KEY>;
The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/trustix-1.5/>;
or directly at
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/misc/2002/TSL-2002-0089-wget.asc.txt>;
MD5sums of the packages:
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435d1e7e4703328faabed4f8c1d81de9 ./1.5/RPMS/wget-1.8.2-4tr.i586.rpm
9841379e63c8741e0df935a896352f19 ./1.5/SRPMS/wget-1.8.2-4tr.src.rpm
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Trustix Security Team
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