USN-8957-1: authd vulnerability
USN-8957-1
Summary
USN-8543-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Wget. The update for CVE-2026-58472 was incomplete and could introduce a regression. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Wget mishandled semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URL. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to trick a user into connecting to a different host than intended.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-38428)
It was discovered that Wget incorrectly handled Metalink documents containing a whitespace-only URL. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-58469)
It was discovered that Wget incorrectly handled Content-Range header values, leading to an integer overflow. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause download desynchronization. (CVE-2026-58470)
It was discovered that Wget incorrectly handled character set conversion of server-supplied filenames. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-58471)
It was discovered that Wget incorrectly handled HTML attributes requiring entity encoding. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-58472)
Products covered
A separate affected-products list was not included in the collected bulletin.
Remediation
USN-8543-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Wget.
CVEs in this advisory 5
Updates
- Published by Ubuntu
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- Added to SecurityAlert
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