CVE-2016-4971 Affecting wget package, versions <1.18-1

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.

GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource.

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4971
• https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-4971
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4971
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40064/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-11
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182d03178d0f13e1
• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-06/msg00004.html
• http://securityadvisories.paloaltonetworks.com/Home/Detail/86
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162395/GNU-wget-Arbitrary-File-Upload-Code-Execution.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00043.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343666
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2587.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91530
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036133
• http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-4971
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3012-1
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2587
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4971
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40064