Thursday, August 5, 2010

Debian Security : New wget packages fix potential code execution vulnerability

Users of Debian Security please be advised of a New wget packages fix potential code execution vulnerability that has been identified.

To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)

Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
DSA 2088-1: DSA 2088-1 New wget packages fix potential code execution
Debian Security
It was discovered that wget, a command line tool for downloading files

from the WWW, uses server-provided file names when creating local

files. This may lead to code execution in some scenarios.Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
 

No comments:

Post a Comment