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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-e14374472f
2016-06-18 16:56:01.320271
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Name : wget
Product : Fedora 24
Version : 1.18
Release : 1.fc24
URL :
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
Summary : A utility for retrieving files using the HTTP or FTP protocols
Description :
GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP or
FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the
background while you are logged out, recursive retrieval of
directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp
storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with
HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections,
support for Proxy servers, and configurability.
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Update Information:
Updated to 1.18 due to CVE-2016-4971
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update wget' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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