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, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.viestintavirasto.fi/en/cybersecurity/vulnerabilities/2017/haavoittuvuus-2017-037.html
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
Various Sources x_refsource_confirm
https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_17_62_Wget
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