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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201308-01">
<title>PuTTY: Multiple Vulnerabilities</title>
<synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Putty, allowing
attackers to compromise user system
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">putty</product>
<announced>2013-08-21</announced>
<revised count="2">2013-08-21</revised>
<bug>394429</bug>
<bug>479872</bug>
<access>local, remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-misc/putty" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.63</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.63</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>PuTTY is a telnet and SSH client.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PuTTY. Please review
the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>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.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All PuTTY users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/putty-0.63"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4607">CVE-2011-4607</uri>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4852">CVE-2013-4852</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2012-03-06T21:22:42Z">ackle</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2013-08-21T11:27:53Z">
creffett
</metadata>
</glsa>