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Red Hat: CVE-2016-4971: Moderate: wget security and bug fix update (RHSA-2016:2587)

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Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 30, 2016
Added
Nov 4, 2016
Modified
Feb 19, 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.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-wgetredhat-upgrade-wget-debuginfo

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