View at Official ubuntu advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail
Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2016-4971 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (wget), 7 status rows across 7 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 7.
GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource.