Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
• Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
• Cflinuxfs3
• Xenial Stemcell 621.x
• Operations Manager Image 2.10.x

Description

USN-6852-1 fixed a vulnerability in Wget. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Original advisory details: 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. Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6852-2` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: wget - 1.17.1-1ubuntu1.5+esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

Fixed VMware Products and Versions

• Cflinuxfs3
• 0.390.0 or greater
• Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
• 2.0.0 or greater
• Cf Deployment
• 30.0.0 or greater

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6852-2

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-6852-2

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=usn-6852-2

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24761

History

2024-06-27: Initial vulnerability report published.