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Alpine: multiple putty packages: security update to 0.68-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 406593

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - The ssh_agent_channel_data function in PuTTY before 0.68 allows remote attackers to have unspecified
 impact via a large length value in an agent protocol message and leveraging the ability to connect to the
 Unix-domain socket representing the forwarded agent connection, which trigger a buffer overflow.
 (CVE-2017-6542)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-6542

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 406593

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

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: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-6542

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6542

BID: 97156