[CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2014:1764 Moderate CentOS 6 wget Security Update
Leon Fauster
leonfauster at googlemail.com
Fri Oct 31 10:24:20 UTC 2014
Am 30.10.2014 um 21:20 schrieb Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>:
> 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.
oh, that means effectively only 6-7 years "fully supported".
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LF
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