GNU Wget: Header injection

GNU Wget: Header injection A header injection vulnerability in GNU Wget might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers. wget 2017-06-20 2017-06-20 612326 remote 1.19.1-r1 1.19.1-r1

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols.

It was discovered that there was a header injection vulnerability in GNU Wget which allowed remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via CRLF sequences in the host subcomponent of a URL.

A remote attacker could inject arbitrary HTTP headers in requests by tricking a user running GNU Wget into processing crafted URLs.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All GNU Wget users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/wget-1.19.1-r1"

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