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CVE-2017-13089

GNU Wget: stack overflow in HTTP protocol handling

Published: 10/27/2017 Last updated: 9/17/2024 Reserved: 8/22/2017

The http.c:skip_short_body() function is called in some circumstances, such as when processing redirects. When the response is sent chunked in wget before 1.19.2, the chunk parser uses strtol() to read each chunk's length, but doesn't check that the chunk length is a non-negative number. The code then tries to skip the chunk in pieces of 512 bytes by using the MIN() macro, but ends up passing the negative chunk length to connect.c:fd_read(). As fd_read() takes an int argument, the high 32 bits of the chunk length are discarded, leaving fd_read() with a completely attacker controlled length argument.

CNA assigner: certcc (37e5125f-f79b-445b-8fad-9564f167944b) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.0 8.8 High CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Opam packages affected (1)

conf-wget

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
Wget GNU Project < watchOS 6.2

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