ALT-PU-2015-1972-1
Closed vulnerabilities
Published: 2015-12-07
Modified: 2025-04-12
Modified: 2025-04-12
CVE-2015-5309
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.
Severity: MEDIUM (4.3)
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
References:
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173021.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173094.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00099.html
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-ech-overflow.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3409
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034308
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-01
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173021.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173094.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00099.html
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-ech-overflow.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3409
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034308
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-01