CVE-2015-5309

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-5309
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-12-07 20:59:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-30 16:27:00 UTC
DescriptionInteger 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-189

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All
Application Simon Tatham Putty All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: putty-0.66-1.fc22 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: putty-0.66-1.fc23 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3409-1 putty DEBIAN www.debian.org
PuTTY ECH Integer Overflow Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code on the Target User's System - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
PuTTY vulnerability vuln-ech-overflow CONFIRM www.chiark.greenend.org.uk Vendor Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2015:2023-1: moderate: Security update for putty SUSE lists.opensuse.org
PuTTY: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201606-01) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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