ELA-211-1 wget security update

race condition

2020-01-30
Packagewget
Related CVEs CVE-2016-7098


An issue has been found in wget, a tool to retrieve files from the web. A race condition might occur as files rejected by an access list are kept on the disk for the duration of a HTTP connection.



For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version .

We recommend that you upgrade your wget packages.

Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found in the dedicated section of our website.