Amazon Linux 1 (EOL) Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-442
Advisory Released Date: 2014-11-05
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-11-05
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
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.
Affected Packages:
wget
Issue Correction:
Run yum update wget to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
wget-debuginfo-1.16-1.13.amzn1.i686
wget-1.16-1.13.amzn1.i686
src:
wget-1.16-1.13.amzn1.src
x86_64:
wget-debuginfo-1.16-1.13.amzn1.x86_64
wget-1.16-1.13.amzn1.x86_64