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CVE-2019-9894

Published: Mar 21, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
6.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9894
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/320.html

A remotely triggerable memory overwrite in RSA key exchange in PuTTY before 0.71 can occur before host key verification.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
PuttyPutty*0.71 (excluding)
PuttyUbuntubionic*
PuttyUbuntucosmic*
PuttyUbuntuesm-apps/xenial*
PuttyUbuntutrusty*
PuttyUbuntuupstream*
PuttyUbuntuxenial*

References

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