Debian: DSA-2088-1: New wget packages fix potential code execution
Summary
It was discovered that wget, a command line tool for downloading files
from the WWW, uses server-provided file names when creating local
files. This may lead to code execution in some scenarios.
After this update, wget will ignore server-provided file names. You
can restore the old behavior in cases where it is not desirable by
invoking wget with the new --use-server-file-name option.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.11.4-2+lenny2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your wget package.
Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1475149 69e8a7296c0e12c53bd9ffd786462e87
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alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
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amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
Size/MD5 checksum: 615714 ced5fb50f5c1f852dab3499a7e789591
arm architecture (ARM)
Size/MD5 checksum: 605770 a2e1770f81364d506e32273b6664b532
armel architecture (ARM EABI)
Size/MD5 checksum: 609656 647e20606aad2f1b91dcae2fcf16c7a6
hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 621172 8b62a1a3bf2283f944c94536566153d2
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
Size/MD5 checksum: 608094 1c10b6d3382359ca474bea2a11668e51
ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)
Size/MD5 checksum: 678432 c63753107b2ae8a71dc30ba47f3cd060
mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))
Size/MD5 checksum: 622254 4e14e455793e56095104c061ff4c61c7
mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))
Size/MD5 checksum: 621242 efb101ae6b9c40aa77cbf949743d6e32
powerpc architecture (PowerPC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 624122 a85d5fe77b024aa5a3075c3134ea36d4
s390 architecture (IBM S/390)
Size/MD5 checksum: 622754 a25ebc6b2dedae98ebaf4b0870002c44
sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 611542 191b61e5edca722a54f7e19728346f94
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show