| Description: | An updated wget package that fixes a security issue is now available forRed Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility that can use HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP.Daniel Stenberg reported that Wget is affected by the previously publishednull prefix attack, caused by incorrect handling of NULL characters inX.509 certificates. If an attacker is able to get a carefully-craftedcertificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority, the attacker coulduse the certificate during a man-in-the-middle attack and potentiallyconfuse Wget into accepting it by mistake. (CVE-2009-3490)Wget users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains abackported patch to correct this issue. |