Out-of-Bounds Affecting putty package, versions <0.71-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.96% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE316-PUTTY-2843956
  • published21 Mar 2019
  • disclosed21 Mar 2019

Introduced: 21 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-9895  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.16 putty to version 0.71-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream putty package and not the putty package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.16 relevant fixed versions and status.

In PuTTY versions before 0.71 on Unix, a remotely triggerable buffer overflow exists in any kind of server-to-client forwarding.