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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-4971: Security patch for wget (ALAS-2016-720)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-4971: Security patch for wget (ALAS-2016-720)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
06/30/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/14/2016
Modified
10/14/2022

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(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-wget

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