wget: fix access-to-ro memory

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/networking/wget.c b/networking/wget.c
index cc768db8b..e46539fd9 100644
--- a/networking/wget.c
+++ b/networking/wget.c
@@ -543,7 +543,9 @@ static void parse_url(char *src_url, struct host_info *h)
         p = strchr(h->host, '?'); if (!sp || (p && sp > p)) sp = p;
         p = strchr(h->host, '#'); if (!sp || (p && sp > p)) sp = p;
         if (!sp) {
-                h->path = "";
+                /* must be writable because of bb_get_last_path_component() */
+                static char nullstr[] = "";
+                h->path = nullstr;
         } else if (*sp == '/') {
                 *sp = '\0';
                 h->path = sp + 1;