CVE-2016-4971 (GCVE-0-2016-4971)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-06-30 17:00
Modified
2024-08-06 00:46
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182d03178d0f13e1Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-06/msg00004.htmlMailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00043.htmlBroken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162395/GNU-wget-Arbitrary-File-Upload-Code-Execution.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2587.htmlBroken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91530Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036133Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3012-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343666Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-11Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-4971Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40064/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182d03178d0f13e1Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-06/msg00004.htmlMailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00043.htmlBroken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162395/GNU-wget-Arbitrary-File-Upload-Code-Execution.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2587.htmlBroken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91530Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036133Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3012-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343666Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-11Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-4971Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40064/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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