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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-4971: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

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Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 30, 2016
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-wget

References

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