vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-6542: putty -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/27/2017
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

The ssh_agent_channel_data function in PuTTY before 0.68 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a large length value in an agent protocol message and leveraging the ability to connect to the Unix-domain socket representing the forwarded agent connection, which trigger a buffer overflow.

Solution

debian-upgrade-putty
Title
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