CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-4206

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2013-08-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-08-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer underflow in the modmul function in sshbn.c in PuTTY before 0.63 allows remote SSH servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly trigger memory corruption or code execution via a crafted DSA signature, which is not properly handled when performing certain bit-shifting operations during modular multiplication.

Affected configurations

• putty putty 0.45 • putty putty 0.46 • putty putty 0.47 • putty putty 0.48 • putty putty 0.49 • putty putty 0.50 • putty putty 0.51 • putty putty 0.52 • putty putty 0.53b • putty putty 0.54 • putty putty 0.55 • putty putty 0.56 • putty putty 0.57 • putty putty 0.58 • putty putty 0.59 • putty putty 0.60 • putty putty 0.61 • putty putty 2010-06-01 • simon tatham putty (<= 0.62) • simon tatham putty 0.53

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-1335 Incorrect Bitwise Shift of Integer weakness

References