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CVE-2015-5309

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Date: December 7, 2015

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.

Language: C

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Related Resources (11)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00099.html
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-ech-overflow.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5309
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173094.html
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-5309
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3409
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173021.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-01
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5309
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034308
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-5309

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Numeric Errors

CWE-189

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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