CVEvulnerability
CVE-2004-1440
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2004-12-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the modpow function in PuTTY before 0.55 allow (1) remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an SSH2 packet with a base argument that is larger than the mod argument, which causes the modpow function to write memory before the beginning of its buffer, and (2) remote malicious servers to cause a denial of service (client crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large bignum during authentication.
Affected configurations
• putty putty 0.48
• putty putty 0.49
• putty putty 0.50
• putty putty 0.51
• putty putty 0.52
• putty putty 0.53
• putty putty 0.53b
• putty putty 0.54
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109167869528138&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/12212/ Patch
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html www.chiark.greenend.org.uk
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-modpow.html www.chiark.greenend.org.uk
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-04.xml Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10850 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16885 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109167869528138&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/12212/ Patch
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html www.chiark.greenend.org.uk
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-modpow.html www.chiark.greenend.org.uk
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-04.xml Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10850 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16885 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com