Hi, Here's a summary of relevant postings to oss-security and bug-wget. Unofficial patch for wget, by Florian Weimer: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/05/17/2 PoC attack on a wget cron job resulting in a .bash_profile overwrite: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/05/18/13 Brief description of an attack on a wget cron job not involving a dot-file nor a home directory (but involving a website tree instead): http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2010-05/msg00032.html Advice on back-porting lftp's fix to versions 3.4.7 through 4.0.5: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/05/20/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/10/1 On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 06:16:39PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: > Did anyone assign CVE ids for these? Marcus' reminder has resulted in the following CVE assignments: CVE-2010-2251 - lftp CVE-2010-2252 - wget CVE-2010-2253 - libwww-perl as used in lwp-download Alexander
