Medium severity5.9OSV Advisory· Published Jul 7, 2026· Updated Jul 9, 2026
CVE-2026-58472
CVE-2026-58472
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.
Affected products
4Patches
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References
2News mentions
1- GNU Patch & Wget: Six Vulnerabilities Including Heap Overflows and DoS Disclosed TogetherVypr Intelligence · Jul 10, 2026