CVE-2004-1440

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the modpow function in PuTTY before 0.55 allow (1) remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an SSH2 packet with a base argument that is larger than the mod argument, which causes the modpow function to write memory before the beginning of its buffer, and (2) remote malicious servers to cause a denial of service (client crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large bignum during authentication.

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the modpow function in PuTTY before 0.55 allow (1) remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an SSH2 packet with a base argument that is larger than the mod argument, which causes the modpow function to write memory before the beginning of its buffer, and (2) remote malicious servers to cause a denial of service (client crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large bignum during authentication.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

PuTTY

First reported 20 years ago

2004-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:31:00

Affected Software

PuTTY 0.48

0.48

PuTTY 0.49

0.49

PuTTY 0.50

0.50

PuTTY 0.51

0.51

PuTTY 0.52

0.52

PuTTY 0.53

0.53

PuTTY 0.53b

0.53b

PuTTY 0.54

0.54

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