UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5309

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5309

    Published: 7 Dec 2015Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
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    Summary:

    Details: 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 packages

    Package

    Name: putty

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.66-1

    Affected versions

    0.65-2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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