GNU Wget fd_read_body Heap Buffer Overflow (CVE-2017-13090)

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Wget. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of HTTP responses with chunked transfer encoding within the fd_read_body() function. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to make an HTTP request to the affected application.

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