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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: certcc

Published: 2017-10-27T19:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T18:23:48.006Z

Reserved: 2017-08-22T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-13090

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-10-27T19:29:00.377

Modified: 2017-12-30T02:29:01.187

Link: CVE-2017-13090

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-10-26T15:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-13090 - Bugzilla