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USN-982-1: Wget vulnerability

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USN-982-1: Wget vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/06/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

GNU Wget 1.12 and earlier uses a server-provided filename instead of the original URL to determine the destination filename of a download, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a 3xx redirect to a URL with a .wgetrc filename followed by a 3xx redirect to a URL with a crafted filename, and possibly execute arbitrary code as a consequence of writing to a dotfile in a home directory.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-wget

References

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