MGASA-2017-0093

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Source

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0093.html

Import Source

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0093.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MGASA-2017-0093

Related

CVE-2017-6542

Published

2017-03-27T21:27:33Z

Modified

2017-03-27T21:15:16Z

Summary

Updated putty packages fix security vulnerability

Details

In PuTTY before 0.68, if SSH agent forwarding is enabled, local attackers that are also able to connect to the UNIX domain socket could have overwritten heap data (CVE-2017-6542).

References

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0093.html
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20525
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-agent-fwd-overflow.html
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html

Credits

- Mageia - COORDINATOR
- - https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team

Affected packages

Mageia:5 / putty

Package

Name: putty
Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/putty?distro=mageia-5

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.68-1.mga5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "section": "core"
}