openSUSE Security Update: update for wget ______________________________________________________________________________
Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:1380-1 Rating: moderate References: Cross-References: CVE-2014-4877 Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 openSUSE 13.1 openSUSE 12.3 ______________________________________________________________________________
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
Description:
wget was updated to version 1.16 to fix one security issue.
The following security issue was fixed:
- Fix for symlink attack which could allow a malicious ftp server to create arbitrary files, directories or symbolic links and set their permissions when retrieving a directory recursively through FTP (CVE-2014-4877).
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE 13.2:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-637
- openSUSE 13.1:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-637
- openSUSE 12.3:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-637
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):
wget-1.16-4.4.1 wget-debuginfo-1.16-4.4.1 wget-debugsource-1.16-4.4.1
- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):
wget-1.16-3.4.1 wget-debuginfo-1.16-3.4.1 wget-debugsource-1.16-3.4.1
- openSUSE 12.3 (i586 x86_64):
wget-1.16-15.4.1 wget-debuginfo-1.16-15.4.1 wget-debugsource-1.16-15.4.1
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