FreeBSD: wget -- HTTP to FTP redirection file name confusion vulnerability (CVE-2016-4971)
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
06/09/2016
07/25/2018
06/22/2016
10/30/2017
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)
- freebsd-upgrade-package-wget
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