MGASA-2014-0431

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    MGASA-2014-0431

    Published: 28 Oct 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-4877

    Summary: Updated wget packages fix CVE-2014-4877

    Details: Updated wget package fixes security vulnerability: Wget was susceptible to a symlink attack which could create arbitrary files, directories or symbolic links and set their permissions when retrieving a directory recursively through FTP (CVE-2014-4877). The default settings in wget have been changed such that wget no longer creates local symbolic links, but rather traverses them and retrieves the pointed-to file in such a retrieval. The old behaviour can be attained by passing the --retr-symlinks=no option to the wget command.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14386, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: wget

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/wget?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.14-2.2.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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