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Fedora 23 : putty-0.67-1.fc23 (2016-96379cb8d1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 90133

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is new version of putty, for details see upstream announcement:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected putty package.

See Also

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314985

http://www.nessus.org/u?b339c28e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90133

File Name: fedora_2016-96379cb8d1.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/24/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:putty, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2016

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