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CVE-2014-4877 (GCVE-0-2014-4877)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-10-29 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:27
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
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http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3062 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/publ… x_refsource_CONFIRM
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Date Public
2014-10-27 00:00
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