CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-1440

7.5 HIGH Published 2004-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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

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