GLSA 201308-01: PuTTY: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	PuTTY: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date:	08/21/2013
Bugs:	#394429, #479872
ID:	201308-01

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Putty, allowing attackers to compromise user system

Background

PuTTY is a telnet and SSH client.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-misc/putty	< 0.63	>= 0.63	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PuTTY. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

An attacker could entice a user to open connection to specially crafted SSH server, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or obtain sensitive information.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All PuTTY users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/putty-0.63"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-01.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.