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Fedora 23 : putty-0.66-1.fc23 (2015-3d17682c15)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89220

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is new version of putty. ---- This is an update fixing integer overflow and buffer underrun in erase characters (ECH) handling.

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=1279425

http://www.nessus.org/u?1ef8da71

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89220

File Name: fedora_2015-3d17682c15.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:putty, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/1/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5309