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