RHBA-2012:0438 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated wget package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP of FTP
protocols.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Previously, the wget utility failed with the "Connection timed out" message

when running the utility to get data from Microsoft Windows Server 2003 that had
returned an error for the "PORT" request. This was because wget did not
correctly handle the error in the accept_connection() function and therefore did
not attempt to retry upon the connection timeout. The underlying source code has
been modified to ensure that wget retries the connection in the described
scenario. (BZ#802438)

All users of wget are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes
this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant
to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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