Security Advisory and Request for Wget Update: 1.10.2

[Alan Dobkin <Cygwin at OmniComp dot org>]

FYI, Wget 1.10.2 was released over a month ago (on October 13, 2005):

> The latest stable version of Wget is 1.10.2. This release contains
> fixes for a major security problem: a remotely exploitable buffer
> overflow vulnerability in the NTLM authentication code. All Wget users
> are strongly encouraged to upgrade their Wget installation to the last
> release.
>

http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg08295.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg08300.html

It seems that Harold Hunt is the new wget maintainer, and I do not wish
to take his place, but new releases such as this (especially security
updates that affect Windows) should be provided in a timely manner.

Thanks,
Alan

P. S. -- Apparently this is the same bug that also affected cURL, which
has no current maintainer....


On 10/23/2005 3:46 PM, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> cURL is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could lead to the
> execution of arbitrary code.
>
> Solution:  upgrade to 7.15.0.
>
> Workaround until solved:
> Disable NTLM authentication by not using the --anyauth or --ntlm
> options when using cURL (the command line version). Workarounds for
> programs that use the cURL library depend on the configuration options
> presented by those programs.
>
> http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200510-19.xml
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3185
> http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=322&type=vulnerabilities
>
>
> Yaakov