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Posted on 15 March 2015
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3190-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
March 15, 2015 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : putty
CVE ID : CVE-2015-2157
Patrick Coleman discovered that the Putty SSH client failed to wipe out
unused sensitive memory.
In addition Florent Daigniere discovered that exponential values in
Diffie Hellman exchanges were insufficienty restricted.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.62-9+deb7u2.
For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been
fixed in version 0.63-10.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.63-10.
We recommend that you upgrade your putty packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
