ubuntu · CVE-2014-4877

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Priority: medium Published: 2014-10-29 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2024-07-24 15:57:39 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2014-4877 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (wget), 5 status rows across 5 suites (lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic): released 5.

Description:

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.

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