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CVE-2015-5309 (GCVE-0-2015-5309)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-07 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:41
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034308 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-01 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-1… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
2015-11-07 00:00
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