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Updated wget packages has been released for Debian GNU/Linux 7 Extended LTS



Package: wget
Version: 1.13.4-3+deb7u7
Related CVE: CVE-2019-5953
Kusano Kazuhiko discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the handling of Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRI) in wget, a network utility to retrieve files from the web, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service when recursively downloading from an untrusted server.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.13.4-3+deb7u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your wget packages.

Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found at: https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/