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From: Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>
To: gentoo-announce@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 201308-01 ] PuTTY: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:55:27
Message-Id: 5214A9C8.5030700@gentoo.org
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2 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201308-01
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7 Severity: Normal
8 Title: PuTTY: Multiple Vulnerabilities
9 Date: August 21, 2013
10 Bugs: #394429, #479872
11 ID: 201308-01
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15 Synopsis
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18 Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Putty, allowing attackers
19 to compromise user system
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21 Background
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24 PuTTY is a telnet and SSH client.
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26 Affected packages
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30 Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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32 1 net-misc/putty < 0.63 >= 0.63
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34 Description
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37 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PuTTY. Please review
38 the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
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40 Impact
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43 An attacker could entice a user to open connection to specially crafted
44 SSH server, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the
45 privileges of the process or obtain sensitive information.
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47 Workaround
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50 There is no known workaround at this time.
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52 Resolution
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55 All PuTTY users should upgrade to the latest version:
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57 # emerge --sync
58 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/putty-0.63"
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60 References
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63 [ 1 ] CVE-2011-4607
64 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cvm?cvename=CVE-2011-4607
65 [ 2 ] CVE-2013-4852
66 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4852
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68 Availability
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71 This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
72 the Gentoo Security Website:
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74 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-01.xml
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76 Concerns?
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79 Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
80 confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
81 importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
82 security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at
83 https://bugs.gentoo.org.
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85 License
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88 Copyright 2013 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
89 belongs to its owner(s).
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91 The contents of this document are licensed under the
92 Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
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94 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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