Re: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2014:1764 Moderate CentOS 6 wget Security Update

[Peter <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/31/2014 06:53 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
> CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2014:1764 Moderate
> 
> Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html

Note to CentOS 5 users.  RedHat does not plan to release a fixed wget
for EL5.  You can mitigate this vulnerability by adding the following
line to the bottom of /etc/wgetrc:
retr-symlinks=on

Doing so will basically accomplish exactly the same thing that this
update does.


Peter
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