SUSE-SU-2016:2226-1 Security update for wget

This update for wget fixes the following issues: - Fix for HTTP to a FTP redirection file name confusion vulnerability bsc984060, CVE-2016-4971. - Work around a libidn vulnerability bsc937096, CVE-2015-2059. - Fix for wget fails with basicauth: Failed writing HTTP request: Bad file descriptor...

wget -- multiple vulnerabilities

Jan Minar reports that there exists multiple vulnerabilities in wget: Wget erroneously thinks that the current directory is a fair game, and will happily write in any file in and below it. Malicious HTTP response or malicious HTML file can redirect wget to a file that is vital to the system, and...