# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2017-13089"
idYear: 2017
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2017-10-27T19:00:00.000Z"
updatedAt: "2024-09-17T01:15:49.128Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:55:52.037Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2017-13089"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2017-13089.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13089"
title: "GNU Wget: stack overflow in HTTP protocol handling"
summary: "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."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"prior to 1.19.2","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"GNU Project","product":"Wget","platforms":["any"]}]

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