vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-6df56c60-3738-11e6-a671-60a44ce6887b (CVE-2016-4971): wget -- HTTP to FTP redirection file name confusion vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 21, 2016
Added
Dec 10, 2025
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

Giuseppe Scrivano reports: On a server redirect from HTTP to a FTP resource, wget would trust the HTTP server and uses the name in the redirected URL as the destination filename.

Solution

freebsd-upgrade-package-wget
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