Bug 170670 - CAN-2005-3185 NTLM buffer overflow
Summary: CAN-2005-3185 NTLM buffer overflow
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: wget
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Karsten Hopp
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-10-13 17:32 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-10-19 13:35:54 UTC
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-10-13 17:32:01 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #170666 +++

The NTLM authentication code in wget was derived form the libcurl NTLM auth, so
wget is vulnerable to this issue.

This text was scavanged from the libcurl advisory:

libcurl's NTLM function can overflow a stack-based buffer if given a too long
user name or domain name. This would happen if you enable NTLM authentication
and either:

 A - pass in a user name and domain name to libcurl that together are longer
     than 192 bytes

 B - allow (lib)curl to follow HTTP "redirects" (Location: and the appropriate
     HTTP 30x response code) and the new URL contains a URL with a user name
     and domain name that together are longer than 192 bytes

-- Additional comment from bressers on 2005-10-13 13:24 EST --
Created an attachment (id=119931)
Proposed patch from upstream

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-10-13 17:33:18 UTC
This issue also affects FC3

Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2005-10-14 10:24:21 UTC
On Fedora Core 4 this is not a security issue; wget is compiled using
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 which catches and blocks this issue.  Therefore on Fedora
Core 4 this can only result in the program being aborted, which is not classed
as a security issue.

Please make a note of this in the advisory of any FC4 update to wget.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2005-10-17 16:20:50 UTC
From User-Agent: XML-RPC

wget-1.10.2-0.fc4 has been pushed for FC4, which should resolve this issue.  If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.


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