CVE-2005-0467

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) sftp_pkt_getstring and (2) fxp_readdir_recv functions in the PSFTP and PSCP clients for PuTTY 0.56, and possibly earlier versions, allow remote malicious web sites to execute arbitrary code via SFTP responses that corrupt the heap after insufficient memory has been allocated.

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) sftp_pkt_getstring and (2) fxp_readdir_recv functions in the PSFTP and PSCP clients for PuTTY 0.56, and possibly earlier versions, allow remote malicious web sites to execute arbitrary code via SFTP responses that corrupt the heap after insufficient memory has been allocated.

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

First reported 20 years ago

2005-02-21 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:32:00

Affected Software

PuTTY

References

14333

Patch, Vendor Advisory

17214

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-sftp-readdir.html

Vendor Advisory

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-sftp-string.html

Vendor Advisory

GLSA-200502-28

Patch, Vendor Advisory

20050221 Multiple PuTTY SFTP Client Packet Parsing Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1002414

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1002416

putty-sftppktgetstring-bo(19403)

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