[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: wget-1.12-2.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-11740
2009-11-20 04:23:22
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Name        : wget
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 1.12
Release     : 2.fc11
URL         : http://wget.sunsite.dk/
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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ChangeLog:

* Wed Nov 18 2009 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 1.12-2
- don't provide /usr/share/info/dir
* Tue Nov 17 2009 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 1.12-1
- update to wget-1.12
- fixes CVE-2009-3490 wget: incorrect verification of SSL certificate
  with NUL in name
* Fri Aug 21 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> - 1.11.4-5
- rebuilt with new openssl
* Mon Jul 27 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.11.4-4
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #520454 - CVE-2009-3490 wget: incorrect verification of SSL certificate with NUL in name
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520454
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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 http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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