CVE-2017-13090

HIGH

GNU Wget < 1.19.1 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101590
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-06
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4008
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=ba6b44f6745b14dce414761a8e4b35d31b176bba
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039661
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3075

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0855
EPSS Percentile 92.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119 CWE-122
Status published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
gnu/wget < 1.19.1
GNU Project/Wget prior to 1.19.2
Published Oct 27, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026