Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2017-6542

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.

  • Published: Mar 27, 2017
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2017-6542
  • Severity: Critical
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Critical
  • Score: 9.8
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
putty / putty - 0.67.x
opensuse_project / leap 42.1 42.1.x
opensuse / leap 42.2 42.2.x