[slackware-security] wget

New wget packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/wget-1.18-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This version fixes a security vulnerability present in all old...

CVE-2016-4971

GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4971

GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource...

wget -- HTTP to FTP redirection file name confusion vulnerability

Giuseppe Scrivano reports: On a server redirect from HTTP to a FTP resource, wget would trust the HTTP server and uses the name in the redirected URL as the destination filename...

ImageMagick 6.9.3-9 / 7.0.1-0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities (ImageTragick)

Exploit for multiple platform in category dos / poc Nikolay Ermishkin from the Mail.Ru Security Team discovered several vulnerabilities in ImageMagick. We've reported these issues to developers of ImageMagick and they made a fix for RCE in sources and released new version 6.9.3-9 released...

Fedora 22 : wget-1.16.3-2.fc22 (2015-fff2073f50)

fixed one bug Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Fedora 23 : wget-1.17-1.fc23 (2015-10f92d4d06)

new version Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Tails Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Tails is an open source Tor-based Linux operating system dedicated to privacy protection, which supports installation on CD-ROMs, USB flash drives, and SD card storage media for direct booting, and is characterized by not storing any data on the local system and providing complete Internet...

CVE-2015-7665

Tails before 1.7 includes the wget program but does not prevent automatic fallback from passive FTP to active FTP, which allows remote FTP servers to discover the Tor client IP address by reading a 1 PORT or 2 EPRT command. NOTE: within wget itself, the automatic fallback is not considered a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: wget-1.16.3-2.fc22

GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you are logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest wit...

WIMAX LX350P(WIXFMR-108) - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit for hardware platform in category web applications Exploit Title: WIMAX LX350PWIXFMR-108 - Multiple Vulnerabilities Date: ˝Friday, ˝December ˝11, ˝2015 Exploit/Vulnerability Author: Alireza Azimzadeh Milani alimp5 Vendor Homepage: http://www.greenpacket.com Version: v2.10.14-g1.5.2 Tested...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: wget-1.17-1.fc23

GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you are logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest wit...

SUSE: Security Advisory for wget (SUSE-SU-2014:1366-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory for wget (SUSE-SU-2014:1366-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2009-1549)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2014-1764)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2014-0151)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201411-05

Gentoo Linux Local Security Checks GLSA 201411-05 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Eero Volotinen Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later ifdescription...

GNU Wget 'src/ftp.c' Information Disclosure Vulnerability

GNU Wget is a suite of software for downloading that supports downloading over the three most common TCP/IP protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. A security vulnerability exists in GNU Wget 'src/ftp.c', which can be exploited by remote attackers to obtain sensitive information...

wget Target IP Address Information Acquisition Vulnerability

wget is a free tool to automatically download files from the network, supporting downloads via the three most common TCP/IP protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. A security vulnerability exists in wget, where a remote FTP server can reject a user's FTP PASV command, causing the target user's wget...