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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-11836
2009-11-20 04:26:21
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Name : wget
Product : Fedora 12
Version : 1.12
Release : 2.fc12
URL :
http://wget.sunsite.dk/
Summary : A utility for retrieving files using the HTTP or FTP protocols
Description :
GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP or
FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the
background while you are logged out, recursive retrieval of
directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp
storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with
HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections,
support for Proxy servers, and configurability.
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Nov 18 2009 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.com> 1.12-2
- don't provide /usr/share/info/dir
* Tue Nov 17 2009 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.com> 1.12-1
- update to wget-1.12
- fixes CVE-2009-3490 wget: incorrect verification of SSL certificate
with NUL in name
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #520454 - CVE-2009-3490 wget: incorrect verification of SSL certificate with NUL in name
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520454
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update wget' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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