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openSUSE Security Update : putty (openSUSE-2015-766)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86924

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

PuTTY was updated to 0.66 to fix security issues and bugs.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

 - CVE-2015-5309: Malicious ECH control sequences could have caused an integer overflow, buffer underrun in terminal emulator bnc#954191

Also contains all bug fixes up to the 0.66 release.

Solution

Update the affected putty packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=954191

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86924

File Name: openSUSE-2015-766.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/19/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:putty, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:putty-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:putty-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5309