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CVE-2004-1487

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2004-12-14 wget -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2004-1487
Phase Assigned(20050215)

Description

wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x allows a remote malicious web server to overwrite certain files via a redirection URL containing a ".." that resolves to the IP address of the malicious server, which bypasses wget's filtering for ".." sequences.

References

Source Reference
BUGTRAQ 20041209 wget: Arbitrary file overwriting/appending/creating and other vulnerabilities
MISC http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261755
REDHAT RHSA-2005:771
UBUNTU USN-145-1
BID 11871
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11682
SECTRACK 1012472
XF wget-file-overwrite(18420)