aru Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 Mandriva Security Advisories MDKSA-2005:183 : wget Updated wget packages fix NTLM authentication vulnerability October 13th, 2005 A vulnerability in libcurl's NTLM function can overflow a stack-based buffer if given too long a user name or domain name in NTLM authentication is enabled and either a) pass a user and domain name to libcurl that together are longer than 192 bytes or b) allow (lib)curl to follow HTTP redirects and the new URL contains a URL with a user and domain name that together are longer than 192 bytes. Wget, as of version 1.10, uses the NTLM code from libcurl and is also vulnerable to this issue. The updated packages have been patched to address this issue. The released versions of Mandriva GNU/Linux affected are: 2006.0Full information about this advisory, including the updated packages, is available at: www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:183 Other references: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-3185 http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2005-10/0061.html Posted automatically by aru (mdksec2mub v: mdksec2mub,v 0.14 2005/05/15 18:06:11 aru Exp aru $) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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