HIGH
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.
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=d892291fb8ace4c3b734ea5125770989c215df3f
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4008
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101592
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039661
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3075
https://github.com/r1b/CVE-2017-13089
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-06
https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_17_62_Wget
https://www.viestintavirasto.fi/en/cybersecurity/vulnerabilities/2017/haavoittuvuus-2017-037.html
Source: MITRE
Published: 2017-10-27
Updated: 2017-12-30
Type: CWE-119
Base Score: 9.3
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Impact Score: 10
Exploitability Score: 8.6
Severity: HIGH
Base Score: 8.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Impact Score: 5.9
Exploitability Score: 2.8
Severity: HIGH