CVE-2017-13090

GNU Wget: heap overflow in HTTP protocol handling

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 8.8
EPSS
EPSS 36.56 % · percentile 98 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
certcc
NVD status
Modified

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

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hcertcc
CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · cret@cert.org (Secondary)
CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0HIGH 9.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
GNU Project · Wgetaffected prior to 1.19.2

References

Sources

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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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