CVE-2010-2252

NameCVE-2010-2252
DescriptionGNU Wget 1.12 and earlier uses a server-provided filename instead of the original URL to determine the destination filename of a download, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a 3xx redirect to a URL with a .wgetrc filename followed by a 3xx redirect to a URL with a crafted filename, and possibly execute arbitrary code as a consequence of writing to a dotfile in a home directory.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-2088-1
Debian Bugs590296

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
wget (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.16-1+deb8u7fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch1.18-5+deb9u3fixed
buster1.20.1-1.1fixed
bullseye1.21-1+deb11u1fixed
bookworm1.21.3-1fixed
sid, trixie1.24.5-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
wgetsourcelenny1.11.4-2+lenny2DSA-2088-1
wgetsource(unstable)1.12-2.1low590296

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