CVE-2017-6542

See a problem?
Please try reporting it to the source first.
Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6542
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6542.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-6542
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-03-27T17:59:00Z
Modified
2026-04-16T06:21:31Z
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

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6542.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events":  [
            {
                "introduced":  "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected":  "0.67"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events":  [
            {
                "introduced":  "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected":  "42.2"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events":  [
            {
                "introduced":  "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected":  "42.1"
            }
        ]
    }
]