<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201308-01"> <title>PuTTY: Multiple Vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Putty, allowing attackers to compromise user system </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">putty</product> <announced>August 21, 2013</announced> <revised>August 21, 2013: 2</revised> <bug>394429</bug> <bug>479872</bug> <access>local, remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-misc/putty" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">0.63</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">0.63</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>PuTTY is a telnet and SSH client.</p> </background> <description> <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PuTTY. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>An attacker could entice a user to open connection to specially crafted SSH server, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or obtain sensitive information. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All PuTTY users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/putty-0.63" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4607">CVE-2011-4607</uri> <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4852">CVE-2013-4852</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:22:42 +0000">ackle</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:27:53 +0000"> creffett </metadata> </glsa>