SUSE-SU-2025:20010-1: moderate: Security update for wget

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# Security update for wget

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:20010-1  
Release Date: 2025-02-03T08:47:43Z  
Rating: moderate  
References:

  * bsc#1226419

  
Cross-References:

  * CVE-2024-38428

  
CVSS scores:

  * CVE-2024-38428 ( SUSE ):  6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  * CVE-2024-38428 ( NVD ):  9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
  * CVE-2024-38428 ( NVD ):  9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

  
Affected Products:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.0

  
  
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

## Description:

This update for wget fixes the following issues:

  * CVE-2024-38428: Fix mishandled semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a
    URI. (bsc#1226419)

  * Update to GNU wget 1.24.5:

  * Fix how subdomain matches are checked for HSTS.
  * Wget will now also parse the srcset attribute in <source> HTML tags
  * Support reading fetchmail style "user" and "passwd" fields from netrc
  * In some cases, prevent the confusing "Cannot write to... (success)" error
    messages
  * Support extremely fast download speeds (TB/s)
  * Ensure that CSS URLs are corectly quoted
  * libproxy support is now upstream- drop wget-libproxy.patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like
YaST online_update or "zypper patch".  
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.0  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-11=1

## Package List:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
    * wget-1.24.5-1.1
    * wget-debugsource-1.24.5-1.1
    * wget-debuginfo-1.24.5-1.1

## References:

  * https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-38428.html
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226419

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