RHSA-2014:1955Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: wget security update

Published
December 3, 2014
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

CVE-2014-4877 — wget: FTP symlink arbitrary filesystem access

🎯 Affected products14

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.5)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.5)
  • wget-0:1.12-1.12.el6_5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.5)
  • wget-0:1.12-1.12.el6_5.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.5)
  • wget-0:1.12-1.12.el6_5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.5)
  • wget-0:1.12-1.12.el6_5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.5)
  • wget-0:1.12-1.12.el6_5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.5)
  • wget-0:1.12-1.12.el6_5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.5)
  • wget-0:1.12-1.12.el6_5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.5)
  • wget-debuginfo-0:1.12-1.12.el6_5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.5)
  • wget-debuginfo-0:1.12-1.12.el6_5.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.5)
  • wget-debuginfo-0:1.12-1.12.el6_5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.5)
  • wget-debuginfo-0:1.12-1.12.el6_5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.5)
  • wget-debuginfo-0:1.12-1.12.el6_5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.5)

✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (4)