CVE-2017-13089
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.
Published:Oct 26, 2017
Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
EPS:Oct 27, 2017
EPSS Score:0.71458
CVSS Score:8.8
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Debian
Product
Debian Linux
Debian
Debian Linux
Vendor
Gnu
Product
Wget
Gnu
Wget
Vendor
Redhat
Product
Enterprise Linux
Redhat
Enterprise Linux
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
