PuTTY: Pre-authentication buffer overflow

PuTTY: Pre-authentication buffer overflow PuTTY contains a vulnerability allowing an SSH server to execute arbitrary code on the connecting client. putty 2004-10-27 2006-05-22: 02 69123 remote 0.56 0.55

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.

PuTTY fails to do proper bounds checking on SSH2_MSG_DEBUG packets. The "stringlen" parameter value is incorrectly checked due to signedness issues. Note that this vulnerability is similar to the one described in GLSA 200408-04 but not the same.

When PuTTY connects to a server using the SSH2 protocol, an attacker may be able to send specially crafted packets to the client, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running PuTTY. Note that this is possible during the authentication process but before host key verification.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All PuTTY users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/putty-0.56"

iDEFENSE Security Advisory 10.27.04 PuTTY ChangeLog CVE-2004-1008 koon koon jaervosz