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 of the chunk length are discarded, leaving fd_read() with a completely attacker controlled length argument.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: certcc

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

Updated: 2024-09-17T01:15:49.128Z

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

Link: CVE-2017-13089

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-10-27T19:29:00.330

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:10:56.803

Link: CVE-2017-13089

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

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

Links: CVE-2017-13089 - Bugzilla