Installing extensions stops/hangs due to server timeout

Release 6.0.2
Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
An error occurred while collecting items to be installed
sessions context was (profile=KNIMEProfile,
phase-org.clipse.quinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=,action=)
Unable to read repository at
[URL]
3.6.2/plugins/org.apache.tika.app_1.14.0.jar
Read timed out

Repeating steps:
Installing knime extension Textprocessing German version
20.11.2018 17:48

Same bug (on server side/application) trying to install knime extension Textprocessing [general or english version]:
An error occurred while collecting items to be installed
session context was:(profile=KNIMEProfile, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=).
Unable to read repository at http://update.knime.com/analytics-platform/3.6/knid=01-87f0ad5085e9a3e8/org/3.6/3.6.2/plugins/org.apache.tika.app_1.14.0.jar.
Read timed out
[Though that goes through all possible 3.6.0/3.6.1 and 3.6.2 before time out until around 40% installing progress]

Did you think about offloading extensions to another hoster etc or other mitigation?

This is a network problem on your end. Maybe you need to configure a proxy? KNIME is served through a very large CDN, chances that there is a problem are really, really low.

Asking the network people, they found out the following signature was triggered:
File-Text_Mozilla-Firefox-HTTP-Index-Format-File-Out-Of-Bounds-Read

On searching for the rule I found the following error/CVE:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/#CVE-2017-5446
[I am using the latest knime version]

For me it works now(they did an exception). Do you need any more feedback?

This is a CVE for Firefox which is not at all related to installing extensions into KNIME.

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