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openSUSE Security Update : putty (openSUSE-2015-218)

low Nessus Plugin ID 81762

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The SSH Terminal emulator putty was updated to the new upstream release 0.64, fixing security issues and bugs :

Security fix: PuTTY no longer retains the private half of users' keys in memory by mistake after authenticating with them. [bsc#920167] (CVE-2015-2157)

New feature: Support for SSH connection sharing, so that multiple instances of PuTTY to the same host can share a single SSH connection instead of all having to log in independently.

Bug fix: IPv6 literals are handled sensibly throughout the suite, if you enclose them in square brackets to prevent the colons being mistaken for a :port suffix.

Solution

Update the affected putty packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920167

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 81762

File Name: openSUSE-2015-218.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/12/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:putty, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:putty-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:putty-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2157