Directory Traversal Affecting wget package, versions <1.16-1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-WGET-300493
- published 29 Oct 2014
- disclosed 29 Oct 2014
Introduced: 29 Oct 2014
CVE-2014-4877 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9 wget to version 1.16-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wget package and not the wget package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in GNU Wget before 1.16, when recursion is enabled, allows remote FTP servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via a LIST response that references the same filename within two entries, one of which indicates that the filename is for a symlink.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4877
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3062
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html
- https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00026.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1955.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70751
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-4877
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2393-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:121