ubuntu · CVE-2017-6542

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-03-27 17:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:36:26 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-6542 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (putty), 10 status rows across 10 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 4, not-affected 3, released 2, DNE 1.

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.

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