Description
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.
Published: 2017-03-27
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: 22.2% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:33:20.175Z

Reserved: 2017-03-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-6542

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-03-27T17:59:00.850

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-6542

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