CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-5309
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-12-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- 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-189
Description
Integer overflow in the terminal emulator in PuTTY before 0.66 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an ECH (erase characters) escape sequence with a large parameter value, which triggers a buffer underflow.
Affected configurations
• opensuse leap 42.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• simon tatham putty (<= 0.65)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173021.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173094.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00099.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-ech-overflow.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3409 www.debian.org
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034308 www.securitytracker.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-01 security.gentoo.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173021.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173094.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00099.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-ech-overflow.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3409 www.debian.org
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034308 www.securitytracker.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-01 security.gentoo.org