In not-unsurprising-cruft-news, additional, vulnerability-laden, Unix and Unix-like (read Linux) utilities have been detected, requiring updates. The list, enumerated by HD Moore, the CTO of Rapid7 (and of Metasploit fame) includes wget, tnftp, symlink issues and others. Questions have arisen, as to why these utilities have not been scrutinized earlier...

' “wget versions prior to 1.16 are vulnerable to a symlink attack (CVE-2014-4877) when running in recursive mode with a FTP target,” said HD Moore, the chief research officer at Rapid7 who found the vulnerability, in a blog post Tuesday...' - via PCWorld's Lucian Constantin