cve-2021-33500
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-05-21 19:42
Modified
2024-08-03 23:50
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
PuTTY before 0.75 on Windows allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (Windows GUI hang) by telling the PuTTY window to change its title repeatedly at high speed, which results in many SetWindowTextA or SetWindowTextW calls. NOTE: the same attack methodology may affect some OS-level GUIs on Linux or other platforms for similar reasons.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://docs.ssh-mitm.at/puttydos.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm-plugins/blob/main/ssh_mitm_plugins/ssh/putty_dos.pyExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.htmlRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.ssh-mitm.at/puttydos.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm-plugins/blob/main/ssh_mitm_plugins/ssh/putty_dos.pyExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.htmlRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
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