Bug 36368

Summary:	wget: Symlink attack (3.2)
Product:	UCS	Reporter:	Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm>
Component:	Security updates	Assignee:	Arvid Requate <requate>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	Stefan Gohmann <gohmann>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	gohmann, requate, walkenhorst
Version:	UCS 3.2
Target Milestone:	UCS 3.2-6-errata
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Moritz Muehlenhoff

2014-10-31 13:11:32 CET

If wget is used to recursively download a directory over FTP, a symlink attack can create arbitrary file or overwrite existing ones (CVE-2014-4877).

Comment 1 Arvid Requate

2015-08-18 17:01:21 CEST

Advisory: 2015-08-18-wget.yaml

Comment 2 Stefan Gohmann

2015-08-19 09:05:14 CEST

YAML: OK

Build log / Patches: OK
# zgrep CVE-2014-4877 /usr/share/doc/wget/changelog.Debian.gz
    setting of wget. Fixes security bug CVE-2014-4877  

Inst / Update i386: OK

Inst / Update amd64: OK

Comment 3 Janek Walkenhorst

2015-08-21 13:14:34 CEST

<http://errata.univention.de/ucs/3.2/362.html>