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/apublic PoCs found — 2
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References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-03/msg00055.htmlhttps://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4ff22863d895cb7ebfced4cf923a012a614adaa8https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201703-03https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-09https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42137/http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-agent-fwd-overflow.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97156http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038067