CVE-2017-13090

GNU Wget: heap overflow in HTTP protocol handling

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Oct 27, 2017
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Aug 22, 2017

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Description

The retr.c:fd_read_body() function is called when processing OK responses. 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 read the chunk in pieces of 8192 bytes by using the MIN() macro, but ends up passing the negative chunk length to retr.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. The attacker can corrupt malloc metadata after the allocated buffer.

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

Affected Products

ProductVersions
WgetGNU Project
  • prior to 1.19.2Affected

References

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