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CVE-2017-6542

CVE-2017-6542

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 22%
from disclosure to weapon72 days
Published on NVDMar 27
1st PoC+72d
exploitation probability
22%top 3% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
2 public exploit(s)
The ssh_agent_channel_data function in PuTTY before 0.68 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a large length value in an agent protocol message and leveraging the ability to connect to the Unix-domain socket representing the forwarded agent connection, which trigger a buffer overflow.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
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