CVE-2017-13089

GNU Wget: stack overflow in HTTP protocol handling

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Oct 27, 2017
Updated
Sep 17, 2024
Reserved
Aug 22, 2017

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.08.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hcertcc

Weaknesses

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

ProductVersions
WgetGNU Project
  • prior to 1.19.2Affected

References

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