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.
Published: 2015-12-07
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 1.7% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-347-1 putty security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3409-1 putty security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-5281 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.
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Simon Tatham Putty
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:41:09.521Z

Reserved: 2015-07-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-5309

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-12-07T20:59:08.060

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-5309

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