| Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2005:771.
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 disk. If a
malicious local user has write access to the directory wget is saving a
file into, it is possible to overwrite files that the user running wget
has write access to. (CVE-2004-2014)
A bug was found in the way wget filters redirection URLs. It is possible
for a malicious Web server to overwrite files the user running wget has
write access to. Note: in order for this attack to succeed the local
DNS would need to resolve .. to an IP address, which is an unlikely
situation. (CVE-2004-1487)
A bug was found in the way wget displays HTTP response codes. It is
possible that a malicious web server could inject a specially crafted
terminal escape sequence capable of misleading the user running wget.
(CVE-2004-1488)
Users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a version of
wget that is not vulnerable to these issues.
Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-771.html
Risk factor : Medium
CVSS Score:
5.0
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