CVE-2017-6542

NameCVE-2017-6542
DescriptionThe 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs857642

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
putty (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)0.63-10+deb8u2vulnerable
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch0.67-3+deb9u1fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)0.74-1+deb11u1~deb10u2fixed
bullseye0.74-1+deb11u2fixed
bullseye (security)0.74-1+deb11u1fixed
bookworm0.78-2+deb12u2fixed
bookworm (security)0.78-2+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie0.82-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
puttysource(unstable)0.67-3857642

Notes

[jessie] - putty <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - putty <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-agent-fwd-overflow.html
Fixed by: https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commitdiff;h=4ff22863d895cb7ebfced4cf923a012a614adaa8 (0.68)
Bug only exploitable if SSH agent forwarding enabled (not the default) and if
the attacker can already be able to connect to the Unix-domain socket
representing the forwarded agent connection.

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