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Vigil@nce - PuTTY: two vulnerabilities
April 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can use several vulnerabilities of PuTTY.
Impacted products: openSUSE Leap.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 24/02/2017.
Revision date: 22/03/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
Several vulnerabilities were announced in PuTTY.
An attacker can generate an integer overflow via
ssh_agent_channel_data(), in order to trigger a denial of service,
and possibly to run code. [severity:2/4; CVE-2017-6542]
An attacker can create a malicious DLL, and then put it in the
current directory, in order to execute code. [severity:2/4]
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/PuTTY-two-vulnerabilities-21958
