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Fedora 21 : putty-0.64-1.fc21 (2015-3160)

low Nessus Plugin ID 81853

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixed an issue when private keys weren't scrub from memory after use.

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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198192

http://www.nessus.org/u?e52c54ba

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 81853

File Name: fedora_2015-3160.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/17/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21, 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: 3/5/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2157

BID: 72825

FEDORA: 2015-3160