CVE-2017-13089

NameCVE-2017-13089
DescriptionThe 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 of the chunk length are discarded, leaving fd_read() with a completely attacker controlled length argument.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1149-1, DSA-4008-1
Debian Bugs879957

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
wget (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.16-1+deb8u7fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch1.18-5+deb9u3fixed
buster1.20.1-1.1fixed
bullseye1.21-1+deb11u1fixed
bookworm1.21.3-1fixed
sid, trixie1.24.5-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
wgetsourcewheezy1.13.4-3+deb7u5DLA-1149-1
wgetsourcejessie1.16-1+deb8u4DSA-4008-1
wgetsourcestretch1.18-5+deb9u1DSA-4008-1
wgetsource(unstable)1.19.2-1879957

Notes

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=d892291fb8ace4c3b734ea5125770989c215df3f

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