CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedGNU Wget versions up to 1.25.0 are vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow in the html_quote_string() function, which can be exploited by remote attackers through specially crafted HTML attributes. This vulnerability can lead to memory corruption, potentially allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code or crash the application. Organizations using Wget for automated downloads or web scraping should prioritize patching to mitigate the risk of exploitation.
Original NVD Description
GNU Wget through 1.25.0, fixed in commit dd692d9, contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the html_quote_string() function in src/convert.c that allows a remote attacker to trigger memory corruption by supplying a crafted HTML attribute with a large number of characters requiring entity encoding. A server-supplied HTML attribute causes a signed integer counter to overflow during output size accumulation, resulting in an undersized heap allocation and subsequent heap buffer overflow during the copy phase.
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