gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201606-01.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201606-01">
  <title>PuTTY: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in PuTTY, the worst of
    which could lead to arbitrary code execution, or cause a Denial of Service
    condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild"/>
  <announced>2016-06-05</announced>
  <revised count="2">2016-06-05</revised>
  <bug>565080</bug>
  <bug>576524</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/putty" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.67</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.67</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>Stack-based buffer overflow in the SCP command-line utility allows
      remote servers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service
      condition via a crafted SCP-SINK file-size response to an SCP download
      request.
    </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-0.67"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5309">CVE-2015-5309</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2563">CVE-2016-2563</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-04-05T03:16:59Z">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-06-05T16:25:06Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>