wget allows terminal parts to be overwritten
| wget-terminal-overwrite (18421) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
wget could allow a remote attacker, in control of a malicious server, could send a specially-crafted HTTP response to overwrite parts of the victim's terminal window.
Platforms Affected:
- Canonical, Ubuntu 4.10
- Canonical, Ubuntu 5.04
- Conectiva, Linux 10
- Conectiva, Linux 9.0
- GNU, wget 1.8
- GNU, wget 1.8.1
- GNU, wget 1.8.2
- GNU, wget 1.9
- GNU, wget 1.9.1
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 10.0 AMD64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 10.0
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 10.1 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 10.1
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux LE2005
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux LE2005 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 2.1 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 2.1
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 2.1 WS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 2.1 ES
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 Desktop
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 AS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 ES
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 WS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 Desktop
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 ES
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 AS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 WS
- RedHat, Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Itanium
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 10 Desktop
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 10 F...
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 10 Server
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 7 Server
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 7 Workstation
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 8 Server
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 8 Workstation
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux Home
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux Appliance Server 1.0 Hosting Ed
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux Appliance Server 1.0 Workgroup Ed
Remedy:
Reportedly, a patch is available for this vulnerability. See the BugTraq Mailing List posting dated Thu Dec 09 2004 - 03:14:38 CST for more information. See References.
For Conectiva Linux 9.0 and 10.0:
Upgrade to the latest version of wget (1.10.1 or later), as listed in Conectiva Linux Security Announcement CLSA-2005:985. See References.
For Red Hat Linux:
Refer to RHSA-2005:771-10 for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information. See References.
For Ubuntu Linux:
Refer to USN-145-1 and USN-145-2 for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information. See References.
For other distributions:
Contact your vendor for upgrade or patch information.
Consequences:
Data Manipulation
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Thu Dec 09 2004 - 03:14:38 CST , wget: Arbitrary file overwriting/appending/creating and other vulnerabilities at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-12/0106.html.
- Conectiva Linux Security Announcement CLSA-2005:985, Fix for security vulnerability in wget at http://distro.conectiva.com/atualizacoes/index.php?id=a&anuncio=000985.
- Debian Bug Report Log #261755, wget: Server responses &c written to the tty verbatim (escape sequences, control characters, ...) at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261755.
- GNU Project Web site, GNU wget at http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html.
- BID-11871: GNU WGet Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2004-1488: wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x does not filter or quote control characters when displaying HTTP responses to the terminal, which may allow remote malicious web servers to inject terminal escape sequences and execute arbitrary code.
- MDKSA-2005:098: Updated wget packages fix vulnerabilities
- RHSA-2005-771: wget security update
- SECTRACK ID: 1012472: wget Lets Remote Users Create or Overwrite Files in Certain Directories
- SUSE-SR:2006:016: SUSE Security Summary Report
Reported:
Dec 09, 2004
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