| Name | CVE-2014-4877 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-82-1, DSA-3062-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 766981 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| wget (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.16-1+deb8u7 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1.18-5+deb9u3 | fixed | |
| buster | 1.20.1-1.1 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 1.21-1+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 1.21.3-1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 1.24.5-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wget | source | squeeze | 1.12-2.1+deb6u1 | DLA-82-1 | ||
| wget | source | wheezy | 1.13.4-3+deb7u2 | DSA-3062-1 | ||
| wget | source | (unstable) | 1.16-1 | 766981 |
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7