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High ALAS2023-2026-2047 1 CVE

Important: wget security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Aug 17, 2026 · Updated Aug 17, 2026

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-58469: GNU Wget through 1.25.0, fixed in commit 37a40fc, contains a heap buffer underread vulnerability in the clean_metalink_string() function within src/metalink.c that allows a malicious server to trigger memory corruption by serving a Metalink document containing a whitespace-only URL. Attackers can cause the function to decrement a pointer past the start of the buffer when processing an all-whitespace Metalink URL, potentially leading to abnormal program behavior.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 wget 0:1.21.3-1.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 wget-debuginfo 0:1.21.3-1.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 wget-debugsource 0:1.21.3-1.amzn2023.0.5

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2026-58469

    GNU Wget 1.25.0 Heap Buffer Underread via Metalink URL Parsing

    GNU Wget through 1.25.0, fixed in commit 37a40fc, contains a heap buffer underread vulnerability in the clean_metalink_string() function within src/metalink.c that allows a malicious server to trigger memory corruption by serving a Metalink document containin…

    GNU wget wget wget wget Debian Ubuntu Wolfi

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-58469.html