CVE-2014-4877 wget: FTP symlink arbitrary filesystem access

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http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/453

CVE-2014-4877 wget: FTP symlink arbitrary filesystem access
From: Petr Matousek <pmatouse () redhat com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:12:12 +0100

It was found that 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.

Upstream fix:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181

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