CVE - CVE-2015-5309

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-5309	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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CONFIRM:http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-ech-overflow.html DEBIAN:DSA-3409 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3409 FEDORA:FEDORA-2015-3d17682c15 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173021.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2015-5ad4a1f151 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173094.html GENTOO:GLSA-201606-01 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-01 SECTRACK:1034308 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034308 SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2015:2023 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00099.html
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20150701	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20150701)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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