Re: wget: Arbitrary file overwriting/appending/creating and other vulnerabilities

2004-12-10 Thread Ulf Härnhammar
Quoting Jan Minar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (2) Use alternative retrieval programs, such as pavuk, axel, or ncftpget. FWIW pavuk is much worse securitywise than wget. I've been working on patching pavuk for a few months, and it has lots of strcpy() and sprintf() calls that lead to buffer overflows,

Re: wget: Arbitrary file overwriting/appending/creating and other vulnerabilities

2004-12-10 Thread Greg Hurrell
El 09/12/2004, a las 10:14, Jan Minar escribió: (0) Wget authors are/were incompetent. Everything else is a corollary. That's a very aggressive stance to take, and not likely to be productive. Patches, for example, would be more productive. -- Mauro Tortonesi in a private mail exchange with me

wget: Arbitrary file overwriting/appending/creating and other vulnerabilities

2004-12-09 Thread Jan Minar
Summary Product: wget Versions: 1.8.x Versions: 1.9.x (to lesser extent) Versions: Versions 1.8 are probably vulnerable too Platforms: Linux,