Gentoo: 200410-29 Normal: PuTTY Pre-authentication Buffer Overflow Risk
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October 27, 2004
PuTTY contains a vulnerability allowing an SSH server to execute arbitrary code on the connecting client.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-29
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: PuTTY: Pre-authentication buffer overflow
Date: October 27, 2004
Bugs: #69123
ID: 200410-29
Synopsis
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PuTTY contains a vulnerability allowing an SSH server to execute
arbitrary code on the connecting client.
Background
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PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix
platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-misc/putty <= 0.55 >= 0.56
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PuTTY fails to do proper bounds checking on SSH2_MSG_DEBUG packets. The
"stringlen" parameter value is incorr...
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