Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html
- https://docs.ssh-mitm.at/puttydos.html
- https://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm-plugins/blob/main/ssh_mitm_plugins/ssh/putty_dos.py
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.