CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-13089

8.8 HIGH Published 2017-10-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-10-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119, CWE-121

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.

Affected configurations

• gnu wget (<= 1.19.1) • debian debian linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 9.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow weakness

References