Comment 2TS6 What's the big deal?

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wget prior to 1.16 allows for a web server to write arbitrary files on the client side

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What's the big deal? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-10-29 13:26 (#2TS6)

Isn't wget a hacker tool anyway?

/trollface

In all seriousness though, this definitely has potential to be a pretty serious issue given how widespread wget's use is, coupled with this probably not being taken as seriously outside of admin circles. Considering how much damage could be done under the guise of offering up instructions for downloading otherwise innocuous content on some FOSS help page somewhere seems enough reason to take this pretty seriously.

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Marked as [Not Junk] by bryan@pipedot.org on 2015-01-02 05:34