UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5309
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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.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5309, http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-ech-overflow.html, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5309
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
