CVE-2017-6542

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.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42137/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-09

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201703-03

https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4ff22863d895cb7ebfced4cf923a012a614adaa8

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038067

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97156

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-agent-fwd-overflow.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-03/msg00055.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3