CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4207
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-08-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Buffer overflow in sshbn.c in PuTTY before 0.63 allows remote SSH servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid DSA signature that is not properly handled during computation of a modular inverse and triggers the overflow during a division by zero by the bignum functionality, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-4206.
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
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00035.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54379 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54533 secunia.com
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-bignum-division-by-zero.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2736 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/06/11 www.openwall.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00035.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54379 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54533 secunia.com
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-bignum-division-by-zero.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2736 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/06/11 www.openwall.com