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Fedora 18 : putty-0.63-1.fc18 (2013-14676)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69411

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is an update that fixes several bugs, for details see upstream announcement:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html This is an update that fixes four CVEs: CVE-2013-4206 CVE-2013-4207 CVE-2013-4208 CVE-2013-4852

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=993031

http://www.nessus.org/u?abc7b641

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69411

File Name: fedora_2013-14676.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/21/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:putty

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4206, CVE-2013-4207, CVE-2013-4208, CVE-2013-4852

BID: 61599, 61644, 61645, 61649

FEDORA: 2013-14676