[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: wget-1.16-3.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-15347
2014-11-19 02:45:53
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Name        : wget
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 1.16
Release     : 3.fc21
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:

add fix for arches with unsigned char
security update
Fix the progress bar issue (#1159643)
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Nov 18 2014 Tomas Hozza <thozza at redhat.com> - 1.16-3
- Fix the progress bar issue (#1159643)
* Mon Nov  3 2014 Jakub Čajka <jcajka at redhat.com> - 1.16-2
- fix failing tests idn-cmd-utf8 and idn-robots-utf8
- re-enabled tests
* Fri Oct 31 2014 Tomas Hozza <thozza at redhat.com> - 1.16-1
- update to 1.16
- fixes CVE-2014-4877
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1139181 - CVE-2014-4877 wget: FTP symlink arbitrary filesystem access
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
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