ALPINE-CVE-2017-6542
- Source
- https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-6542
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-6542.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2017-6542
- Upstream
- Published
- 2017-03-27T17:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2026-06-15T18:24:51Z
- Severity
-
- 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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
Affected packages
Alpine:v3.2 / putty
Package
- Name
- putty
- Purl
- pkg:apk/alpine/putty?arch=source
Alpine:v3.3 / putty
Package
- Name
- putty
- Purl
- pkg:apk/alpine/putty?arch=source
Alpine:v3.4 / putty
Package
- Name
- putty
- Purl
- pkg:apk/alpine/putty?arch=source