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Fedora 22: Wget Update Notification for FTP Exposure Issue

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Calendar Grey December 14, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 23 delivers a significant patch for curl, resolving a major issue and improving network transfer capabilities.
- fixed one bug

Summary

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 with FTP servers and Range with

HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections,

support for Proxy servers, and configurability.

Update Information:

- fixed one bug

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora bug fix file retrieval FTP exposure

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1260925 - wget: IP address exposure via FTP PORT command [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1260925

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update wget' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: wget
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 1.16.3
Release: 2.fc22
URL:
Summary: A utility for retrieving files using the HTTP or FTP protocols

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora bug fix file retrieval FTP exposure

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