A heap-based buffer overflow has been found in the HTTP protocol handling code of wget < 1.19.2, when processing chunked encoded HTTP responses. By tricking an unsuspecting user into connecting to a malicious HTTP server, an attacker could exploit this flaw to potentially execute arbitrary code.
A heap-based buffer overflow has been found in the HTTP protocol handling code of wget < 1.19.2, when processing chunked encoded HTTP responses. By tricking an unsuspecting user into connecting to a malicious HTTP server, an attacker could exploit this flaw to potentially execute arbitrary code.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505445 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=ba6b44f6745b14dce414761a8e4b35d31b176bba
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