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openSUSE Security Update : putty (openSUSE-2019-2277)

high Nessus Plugin ID 129705

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for putty to version 0.73 fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2019-17068: Fixed the insufficient handling of terminal escape sequences, that should delimit the pasted data in bracketed paste mode (boo#1152753).

 - CVE-2019-17069: Fixed a possible information leak caused by SSH-1 disconnection messages (boo#1152753).

Solution

Update the affected putty packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1152753

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 129705

File Name: openSUSE-2019-2277.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/8/2019

Updated: 4/19/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17068

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:putty-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:putty, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:putty-debugsource

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/7/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17068, CVE-2019-17069