UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5309

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5309
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5309.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5309
Upstream
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:43:15Z
Published
2015-12-07T20:59:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T07:17:34.043811Z
Severity
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / putty

Package

Name
putty
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/putty@0.66-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.66-1

Affected versions

0.*

0.65-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "pterm",
            "binary_version": "0.66-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pterm-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "0.66-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "putty",
            "binary_version": "0.66-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "putty-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "0.66-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "putty-doc",
            "binary_version": "0.66-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "putty-tools",
            "binary_version": "0.66-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "putty-tools-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "0.66-1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5309.json"