A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in HTTP protocol handling, potentially allowing a code execution. The http.c:skip_short_body() function is called in some circumstances, such as when processing redirects. When the response is sent chunked, 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.
Created attachment 1342258 [details] Upstream patch
Acknowledgments: Name: the GNU Wget project
Looks like this was introduced via http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=1cee0861627ce56a880fa300960136aac0cf0fe1 RHEL6 does not have this code.
Statement: This issue affects the versions of wget as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. This issue did not affect the versions of wget as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
External References: https://www.viestintavirasto.fi/en/cybersecurity/vulnerabilities/2017/haavoittuvuus-2017-037.html
Created wget tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1506720]
Upstream commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=d892291fb8ace4c3b734ea5125770989c215df3f
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2017:3075 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3075