CVE-2015-5309: Integer Overflow
First published: Mon Dec 07 2015(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| openSUSE Leap | =42.1 | |
| openSUSE openSUSE | =13.1 | |
| openSUSE openSUSE | =13.2 | |
| Simon Tatham Putty | <=0.65 |
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Reference Links
- 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
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