|
|
Log in / Subscribe / Register

Mageia alert MGASA-2016-0323 (wget)

From:  Mageia Updates <buildsystem-daemon@mageia.org>
To:  updates-announce@ml.mageia.org
Subject:  [updates-announce] MGASA-2016-0323: Updated wget packages fix security vulnerability
Date:  Wed, 28 Sep 2016 07:59:53 +0200
Message-ID:  <20160928055953.4820F9F793@duvel.mageia.org>

MGASA-2016-0323 - Updated wget packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 28 Sep 2016 URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0323.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 5 CVE: CVE-2016-4971, CVE-2016-7098 Description: GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource (CVE-2016-4971). Fixed a potential race condition by creating files with .tmp ext and making them accessible to the current user only (CVE-2016-7098). References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18671 - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3012-1 - https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00... - http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4971 - http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7098 SRPMS: - 5/core/wget-1.15-5.1.mga5


to post comments


Copyright © 2026, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds