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From: Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com>
To: slackware-security@slackware.com
Subject: [slackware-security] wget2 (SSA:2025-364-02)
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:58:45 -0800 (PST)
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[slackware-security]  wget2 (SSA:2025-364-02)

New wget2 packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to
fix security issues.


Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog:
+--------------------------+
patches/packages/wget2-2.2.1-i586-1_slack15.0.txz:  Upgraded.
  This update fixes bugs and the following security issues:
  Fix file overwrite issue with metalink.
  Fix remote buffer overflow in get_local_filename_real(),
  Fix buffer overflow in wget_iri_clone() after wget_iri_set_scheme().
  Shared library .so-version bump.
  (* Security fix *)
+--------------------------+


Where to find the new packages:
+-----------------------------+

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project!  :-)

Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for
additional mirror sites near you.

Updated package for Slackware 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/wget2-2.2.1-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/wget2-2.2.1-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/wget2-2.2.1-i686-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/wget2-2.2.1-x86_64-1.txz


MD5 signatures:
+-------------+

Slackware 15.0 package:
06ccc5cb00d1bfae1cf28d8936f672e8  wget2-2.2.1-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
64721c304ef80df73ad2dcd7b4086da2  wget2-2.2.1-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware -current package:
1c46eafb055858059222b16252b4cb50  n/wget2-2.2.1-i686-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
4207ddd7bd3cce3e0eafe60c0a763d18  n/wget2-2.2.1-x86_64-1.txz


Installation instructions:
+------------------------+

Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg wget2-2.2.1-i586-1_slack15.0.txz


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Slackware Linux Security Team
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security@slackware.com

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