GNU Wget: heap overflow in HTTP protocol handling
33Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.8epss 37%
exploitation probability
37%top 2% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
GNU Project · WgetReferences
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=ba6b44f6745b14dce414761a8e4b35d31b176bbahttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3075https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-06https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_17_62_Wgethttps://www.viestintavirasto.fi/en/cybersecurity/vulnerabilities/2017/haavoittuvuus-2017-037.htmlhttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4008http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101590http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039661