Alpine Linux: CVE-2015-5309: putty Integer overflow and buffer underrun in terminal emulator's ECH handling
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
12/07/2015
07/25/2018
08/30/2017
09/22/2017
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-putty
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