PT-2005-1526 · Simon Tatham · Putty

Published 2005-02-21 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2005-0467

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PuTTY versions prior to 0.56

Description The issue is caused by multiple integer overflows in the sftp pkt getstring and fxp readdir recv functions in the PSFTP and PSCP clients. This allows remote malicious web sites to execute arbitrary code via SFTP responses that corrupt the heap after insufficient memory has been allocated.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.56, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-0467

Affected Products

Putty

References · 14

• http://chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-sftp-string.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14333 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-0467 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-28.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-0467 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0467 · Security Note
• http://idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=201&type=vulnerabilities · Vendor Advisory
• http://chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-sftp-readdir.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0467 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19403 · Note
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1002414 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0467 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17214 · Note
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1002416 · Note