Alpine: multiple putty packages: security update to 0.70-r1 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400584

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- A remotely triggerable memory overwrite in RSA key exchange in PuTTY before 0.71 can occur before host key
verification. (CVE-2019-9894)

- In PuTTY versions before 0.71 on Unix, a remotely triggerable buffer overflow exists in any kind of
server-to-client forwarding. (CVE-2019-9895)

- Multiple denial-of-service attacks that can be triggered by writing to the terminal exist in PuTTY
versions before 0.71. (CVE-2019-9897)

- Potential recycling of random numbers used in cryptography exists within PuTTY before 0.71.
(CVE-2019-9898)

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=d9e9e955df92cd033d2771455fa4409ea08562fe

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=e29c5d734c6d64bd6709f1e9a9e3404ca37f2211

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 400584

Version: Revision 1.33

Type: Local

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9898

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9894, CVE-2019-9895, CVE-2019-9897, CVE-2019-9898

BID: 107523