A vulnerability has been found and corrected in wget: GNU Wget before 1.12 does not properly handle a '' (NUL) character in a domain name in the Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle remote attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408 (CVE-2009-3490). This update provides a solution to this vulnerability.