vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3012-1 (CVE-2016-4971): Wget vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 20, 2016
Added
Jun 20, 2016
Modified
Apr 14, 2025

Description

Dawid Golunski discovered that Wget incorrectly handled filenames when
being redirected from an HTTP to an FTP URL. A malicious server could
possibly use this issue to overwrite local files.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-wget
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