CVE-2004-2014

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2004-05-16
Bugzilla:
1617420: CVE-2004-2014 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Wget 1.9 and 1.9.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the name of the file being downloaded.

Find out more about CVE-2004-2014 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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