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Message-ID: <e5d4935d-d2de-41b2-bc8a-f1c63e52fa66@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 18:21:38 -0800
From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@...cle.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: wget2-2.2.1 released with security fixes

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2026-01/msg00000.html announced
release 2.2.1 of GNU Wget2, the successor of GNU Wget.

The announcement listed these noteworthy changes:

>  * Fix file overwrite issue with metalink
>  * Fix remote buffer overflow in get_local_filename_real()
>  * Fix a redirect/mirror regression from 400713ca
> 
>  * Use the local system timestamp when requested via --no-use-server-timestamps
> 
>  * Prevent file truncation with --no-clobber
>  * Improve messages about why URLs are not being followed
>  * Fix metalink with -O/--output-document
>  * Fix sorting of metalink mirrors by priority
>  * Add --show-progress to improve backwards compatibility to wget
>  * Fix buffer overflow in wget_iri_clone() after wget_iri_set_scheme()
>  * Allow 'no_' prefix in config options
>  * Use libnghttp2 for HTTP/2 testing
>  * Fix WolfSSL build issue if SSLv2 isn't built into the library
>  * Set exit status to 8 on 403 response code
>  * Fix convert-links
>  * Fix --server-response for HTTP/1.1
>  * Fix anchor links in README.md for Gitlab
>  * Fix html examples in the documentation
>  * Improvements on code, docs and CI/testing

The first bullet appears to have been assigned CVE-2025-69194:
   https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-69194
and the second bullet appears to have been assigned CVE-2025-69195:
   https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-69195

-- 
         -Alan Coopersmith-                 alan.coopersmith@...cle.com
          Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris

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