Integer Overflow in PuTTY Terminal Emulator: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2015-5309 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Integer overflow in the terminal emulator in PuTTY before 0.66 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an ECH (erase characters) escape sequence with a large parameter value, which triggers a buffer underflow.

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