Untrusted Search Path The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package putty  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-PUTTY-605633
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed30 Jan 2017

Introduced: 30 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-6167  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-426  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:11.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream putty package and not the putty package as distributed by Debian.

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in Putty beta 0.67 allow local users to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse (1) UxTheme.dll or (2) ntmarta.dll file in the current working directory.