module

PuTTY Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
2002-12-16
Created
2018-05-30

Description

This module exploits a buffer overflow in the PuTTY SSH client that is
triggered through a validation error in SSH.c. This vulnerability
affects versions 0.53 and earlier.

Author

MC mc@metasploit.com

Platform

Windows

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands ‘show options’ or ‘show advanced’:


    msf > use exploit/windows/ssh/putty_msg_debug
    msf exploit(putty_msg_debug) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(putty_msg_debug) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(putty_msg_debug) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(putty_msg_debug) > exploit
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