PuTTY Private Key 'putty/sshdss. c' Multiple Information Leakage Vulnerabilities

PuTTY Private Key 'putty/sshdss. c' Multiple Information Leakage Vulnerabilities

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Affected Systems:
Simon Tatham PuTTY 0.52-0.63
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 61644
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2013-4208

PuTTY is an implementation of PuTTYTelnet and SSH on Windows and Unix platforms, with an xterm terminal simulator.

PuTTY 0.52-0.63 is not designed to promptly erase sensitive data in the memory, such as keys. Malicious attackers can obtain keys or other sensitive information from PuTTY memory or crash DUMP.

<* Source: vendor

Link: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/291
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Simon Tatham
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk /~ Sgtatham/putty/