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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-4971: Vulnerability in Wget

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-4971: Vulnerability in Wget

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
06/30/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

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)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-wget-1-18-0-175-3-11-0-4-0

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