gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201308-01.xml

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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>