RHEL 4 : wget (RHSA-2005:771)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2005:771 advisory. GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility that can use either the HTTP or FTP protocols. A bug was found in the way wget writes files to the local...

CVE-2004-2014

CVE-2004-2014 affects wget 1.9 and 1.9.1, where a local user can overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the target filename during download. The underlying cause is a symlink/ race condition when determining the output file, permitting writes to files the user has access to. Remediatio...