CVE-2004-1487

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2004-12-10
Bugzilla:
1617413: CVE-2004-1487 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x allows a remote malicious web server to overwrite certain files via a redirection URL containing a ".." that resolves to the IP address of the malicious server, which bypasses wget's filtering for ".." sequences.

Find out more about CVE-2004-1487 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (wget) RHSA-2005:771 2005-09-27
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (wget) RHSA-2005:771 2005-09-27
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (wget) RHSA-2005:771 2005-09-27

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