[PATCH 1/1] cmd: lwip/wget: avoid NULL dereference in _set_cacert()

Jerome Forissier jerome.forissier at linaro.org
Mon Dec 1 16:27:23 CET 2025


Hi Heinrich,

On 12/1/25 16:17, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> From: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
> 
> Running `wget cacert builtin` leads to a crash in _set_cacert():
> 
>     Unhandled exception: Load access fault
> 
> Function _set_cacert() dereferences variable wget_info.
> We must initialize it before executing the cacert sub-command.
> 
> Fixes: d3761a31ef09 ("lwip: split net/lwip/wget.c")
> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
> ---
>  cmd/lwip/wget.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/cmd/lwip/wget.c b/cmd/lwip/wget.c
> index fc9bc11cd83..4883ad61bce 100644
> --- a/cmd/lwip/wget.c
> +++ b/cmd/lwip/wget.c
> @@ -180,6 +180,8 @@ int do_wget(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
>  	ulong dst_addr;
>  	char nurl[1024];
>  
> +	wget_info = &default_wget_info;
> +
>  #if CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(WGET_CACERT)
>  	if (argc == 4 && !strncmp(argv[1], "cacert", strlen("cacert")))
>  		return set_cacert(argv[2], argv[3]);
> @@ -214,7 +216,6 @@ int do_wget(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
>  	if (parse_legacy_arg(url, nurl, sizeof(nurl)))
>  		return CMD_RET_FAILURE;
>  
> -	wget_info = &default_wget_info;
>  	if (wget_do_request(dst_addr, nurl))
>  		return CMD_RET_FAILURE;
>  

Reviewed-by: Jerome Forissier <jerome.forissier at linaro.org>

Thanks,
-- 
Jerome


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