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PuTTY Denial Of Service Vulnerability April16 (Windows)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Denial of Service

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

7 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The host is installed with PuTTY and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

The flaw is due to SCP command-line utility (pscp) is missing a bounds-check for a stack buffer when processing the SCP-SINK file-size response to a SCP download request.

Affected Software

Affected Software

PuTTY version 0.59 through 0.66 on Windows.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to PuTTY version 0.67 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)