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Debian DSA-3190-1 : putty - security update

low Nessus Plugin ID 81834

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Patrick Coleman discovered that the Putty SSH client failed to wipe out unused sensitive memory.

In addition Florent Daigniere discovered that exponential values in Diffie Hellman exchanges were insufficienty restricted.

Solution

Upgrade the putty packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.62-9+deb7u2.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.63-10.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/putty

https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3190

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 81834

File Name: debian_DSA-3190.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/17/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:putty, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2157

BID: 72825

DSA: 3190