CVE-2004-1008

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Integer signedness error in the ssh2_rdpkt function in PuTTY before 0.56 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a SSH2_MSG_DEBUG packet with a modified stringlen parameter, which leads to a buffer overflow.

Affected products

PuTTY: 0.48, 0.49, 0.50, 0.51, 0.52, 0.53 (+3)
Tortoisecvs: 1.8

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109889312917613&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/12987/
http://secunia.com/advisories/13012/
http://secunia.com/advisories/17214
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1002414
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1002416
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-29.xml
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=155&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=true
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11549
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17886
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109889312917613&w=2

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