In Wget, parser heuristics that trust attacker-controlled remote listings plu...

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In Wget, parser heuristics that trust attacker-controlled remote listings plus unbounded strcpy/strcat into fixed local buffers are a classic remote overflow pattern; always check the destination size, not just the token length.

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