CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4607
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-08-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
PuTTY 0.59 through 0.61 does not clear sensitive process memory when managing user replies that occur during keyboard-interactive authentication, which might allow local users to read login passwords by obtaining access to the process' memory.
Affected configurations
• putty putty 0.59
• putty putty 0.60
• putty putty 0.61
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/499 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/500 seclists.org
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/password-not-wiped.html Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/499 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/500 seclists.org
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/password-not-wiped.html Vendor Advisory