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Debian DSA-3410-1 Security: OpenSSH Privilege Escalation Issue Report

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Calendar Grey December 1, 2015
Scroller Debian
Enhance your OpenSSH packages against a potential buffer overflow vulnerability for Ubuntu systems. Protect your data!
A memory-corrupting integer overflow in the handling of the ECH (erase characters) control sequence was discovered in PuTTY's terminal emulator
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 0.62-9+deb7u3.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.63-10+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed
in version 0.66-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.66-1.

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/



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Package: putty
CVE ID: CVE-2015-5309

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