CVE-2021-33500

NameCVE-2021-33500
DescriptionPuTTY before 0.75 on Windows allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (Windows GUI hang) by telling the PuTTY window to change its title repeatedly at high speed, which results in many SetWindowTextA or SetWindowTextW calls. NOTE: the same attack methodology may affect some OS-level GUIs on Linux or other platforms for similar reasons.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
putty (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)0.63-10+deb8u2fixed
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)(not affected)

Notes

- putty <not-affected> (Windows-specific)

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