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    CVE-2017-13090

    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.

    Published:Oct 26, 2017
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Oct 27, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.08667
    CVSS Score:8.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux
    Vendor
    Gnu
    Product
    Wget
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

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    Integrity
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