CVE-2017-13089
Severity
8.8HIGH
EPSS
76.5%
top 1.06%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 27
Latest updateMay 14
Description
The http.c:skip_short_body() function is called in some circumstances, such as when processing redirects. 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 skip the chunk in pieces of 512 bytes by using the MIN() macro, but ends up passing the negative chunk length to connect.c:fd_read(). As fd_read() takes an int argument, the high 32 bits o…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages4 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0