Vulnerabilities found in more command-line tools, wget and tnftp get patches

  • 30 October 2014
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Lucian Constantin Oct 30, 2014 The critical Shellshock vulnerabilities found last month in the Bash Unix shell have motivated security researchers to search for similar flaws in old, but widely used, command-line utilities.
Two remote command execution vulnerabilities were patched this week in the popular wget download agent and tnftp client for Unix-like systems. This comes after a remote code execution vulnerability was found last week in a library used by strings, objdump, readelf and other command-line tools.
GNU Wget is the go-to utility for downloading Web-based files and resources on a Linux system using the command-line interface. In addition to being used manually, wget is commonly called by custom scripts and scheduled tasks—cron jobs on Linux.
 
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