vulnerability
FreeBSD: VID-09849e71-bb12-11e7-8357-3065ec6f3643 (CVE-2017-13089): wget -- Stack overflow in HTTP protocol handling
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Oct 27, 2017 | Oct 27, 2017 | Dec 10, 2025 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 27, 2017
Added
Oct 27, 2017
Modified
Dec 10, 2025
Description
Antti Levomäki, Christian Jalio, Joonas Pihlaja: Wget contains two vulnerabilities, a stack overflow and a heap overflow, in the handling of HTTP chunked encoding. By convincing a user to download a specific link over HTTP, an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user.
Solution
freebsd-upgrade-package-wget
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