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PuTTY Two Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA14333
Release Date: 2005-02-21
Last Update: 2005-02-22
Popularity: 22,764 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:PuTTY 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-0467


Description:
Gaël Delalleau has reported two vulnerabilities in PuTTY, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An integer overflow in the "fxp_readdir_recv()" function in "sftp.c" can be exploited to execute arbitrary code via a malicious SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) server sending a specially crafted respond to the "FXP_READDIR" command.

2) An integer overflow in the "fxp_open_recv()" function in "sftp.c" can be exploited to execute arbitrary code via a malicious SFTP server sending a specially crafted string field.

NOTE: Successful exploitation is only possible after host key verification.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions prior to 0.57.

Solution:
Update to version 0.57.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
Gaël Delalleau

Changelog:
2005-02-22: Added CVE reference and link to iDEFENSE advisory.

Original Advisory:
PuTTY:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sg...putty/wishlist/vuln-sftp-readdir.html
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-sftp-string.html

iDEFENSE:
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=201&type=vulnerabilities


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