CVE-2017-13090CWE-122

GNU Wget: heap overflow in HTTP protocol handling

High · published October 27, 2017

CVSS v3.0
8.8
EPSS
37%
Percentile
98.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.36563 · 98.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2017-10-27T19:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 OCT 19:00Z
    GNU Wget: heap overflow in HTTP protocol handling
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