Bug 1431716 (CVE-2017-6542)

Summary: CVE-2017-6542 putty: Integer overflow in the ssh_agent_channel_data
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: carnil, fedora, jskarvad, olysonek, sardella, tremble
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Bug Depends On: 1431718, 1431719, 1431720    
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-03-13 16:14:12 UTC
It was found that putty is vulnerable to an integer overflow. An attacker could overwrite the heap data with his own if the system has SSH agent forwarding and he is able to connect to the Unix-domain socket representing the forwarded agent connection.

Upstream patch:

https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commitdiff;h=4ff22863d895cb7ebfced4cf923a012a614adaa8

References:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-agent-fwd-overflow.html

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-03-13 16:14:53 UTC
Created putty tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-5 [bug 1431718]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1431719]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1431720]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:08:56 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.