CVE-2015-5309

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-12-07 20:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

openSUSE Leap 42.1

42.1

OpenSUSE 13.1

13.1

OpenSUSE 13.2

13.2

PuTTY

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