Issued:

2012-04-02

Updated:

2012-04-02

RHBA-2012:0438 - wget bug fix update

Synopsis

wget bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated wget package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP of FTP protocols.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Previously, the wget utility failed with the "Connection timed out" message when running the utility to get data from Microsoft Windows Server 2003 that had returned an error for the "PORT" request. This was because wget did not correctly handle the error in the accept_connection() function and therefore did not attempt to retry upon the connection timeout. The underlying source code has been modified to ensure that wget retries the connection in the described scenario. (BZ#802438)

All users of wget are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• wget-1.11.4-3.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
• wget-1.11.4-3.el5_8.1.ia64.rpm
• wget-1.11.4-3.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
• wget-1.11.4-3.el5_8.1.ppc.rpm
• wget-1.11.4-3.el5_8.1.s390x.rpm
• wget-1.11.4-3.el5_8.1.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information

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