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GLSA-202407-11 : PuTTY: Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 201917

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202407-11 (PuTTY: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PuTTY. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All PuTTY users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot
--verbose >=net-misc/putty-0.81 In addition, any keys generated with PuTTY versions 0.68 to 0.80 should be considered breached and should be regenerated.

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202407-11

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920304

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=930082

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 201917

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202407-11.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/5/2024

Updated: 7/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-31497

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:putty

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-48795, CVE-2024-31497