The Mandriva Security Team published a new security update: MDKSA-2005:204 - Updated wget packages fix vulnerability for Mandriva Linux. Here the announcement:

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2005:204
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : wget
Date : November 1, 2005
Affected: 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0, Multi Network Firewall 2.0
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Problem Description:

Hugo Vazquez Carames discovered a race condition when writing output
files in wget. After wget determined the output file name, but before
the file was actually opened, a local attacker with write permissions
to the download directory could create a symbolic link with the name
of the output file. This could be exploited to overwrite arbitrary
files with the permissions of the user invoking wget. The time window
of opportunity for the attacker is determined solely by the delay of
the first received data packet.

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nameÊN-2004-2014
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Linux 10.1:
28b67f788c7ed5f28ca7e752b15a9eb8 10.1/RPMS/wget-1.9.1-4.3.101mdk.i586.rpm
b0b856e5eeb63f608476877942f6a216 10.1/SRPMS/wget-1.9.1-4.3.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 10.1/X86_64:
d2fc09595e4bf4267c7cc7d9d5def8ee x86_64/10.1/RPMS/wget-1.9.1-4.3.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
b0b856e5eeb63f608476877942f6a216 x86_64/10.1/SRPMS/wget-1.9.1-4.3.101mdk.src.rpm

Corporate 3.0:
91f8d363d41afb43943f3f5569e2e83c corporate/3.0/RPMS/wget-1.9.1-4.3.C30mdk.i586.rpm
8ce78a19c89331fdb7527e6a4674376c corporate/3.0/SRPMS/wget-1.9.1-4.3.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate 3.0/X86_64:
e3796c54a067d9ef54d08f779fe3ec9d x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/wget-1.9.1-4.3.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
8ce78a19c89331fdb7527e6a4674376c x86_64/corporate/3.0/SRPMS/wget-1.9.1-4.3.C30mdk.src.rpm

Multi Network Firewall 2.0:
f834aa6b814014c20b6d97fd7a893ea6 mnf/2.0/RPMS/wget-1.9.1-4.3.M20mdk.i586.rpm
00f1b8920df39e3f4fc35eea07879168 mnf/2.0/SRPMS/wget-1.9.1-4.3.M20mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 10.2:
36dfb01a50fcdec20d379001f2054ba4 10.2/RPMS/wget-1.9.1-5.2.102mdk.i586.rpm
82584cb410bcb5104f44d3429675e7e5 10.2/SRPMS/wget-1.9.1-5.2.102mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 10.2/X86_64:
36dfb01a50fcdec20d379001f2054ba4 x86_64/10.2/RPMS/wget-1.9.1-5.2.102mdk.i586.rpm
82584cb410bcb5104f44d3429675e7e5 x86_64/10.2/SRPMS/wget-1.9.1-5.2.102mdk.src.rpm
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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