PT-2015-6845

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PuTTY versions prior to 0.66 Description The issue is related to an integer overflow in the terminal emulator, which can be triggered by a remote attacker using an ECH erase characters escape sequence with a large parameter value. This can cau...

FreeBSD : PuTTY -- memory corruption in terminal emulator's erase character handling (0cb0afd9-86b8-11e5-bf60-080027ef73ec)

Ben Harris reports : Versions of PuTTY and pterm between 0.54 and 0.65 inclusive have a potentially memory-corrupting integer overflow in the handling of the ECH erase characters control sequence in the terminal emulator. To exploit a vulnerability in the terminal emulator, an attacker must be ab...

PuTTY -- memory corruption in terminal emulator's erase character handling

Ben Harris reports: Versions of PuTTY and pterm between 0.54 and 0.65 inclusive have a potentially memory-corrupting integer overflow in the handling of the ECH erase characters control sequence in the terminal emulator. To exploit a vulnerability in the terminal emulator, an attacker must be abl...