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

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org> wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the heads up. Much appreciated. I'll just post a link
relevant to this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181#c17

I was a bit surprised to learn that security updates labelled
'moderate' are no longer published for EL5.

Akemi