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CVE-2017-13090

Published: 26 October 2017

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
wget
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful
Released (1.19.1-3ubuntu1.1)
trusty
Released (1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.3)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (1.17.1-1ubuntu1.3)
zesty
Released (1.18-2ubuntu1.1)
Patches:
upstream: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=ba6b44f6745b14dce414761a8e4b35d31b176bba

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H