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Fedora 25: 2017-efdd962fee Critical: Fix for Putty Integer Overflow

fedora
Calendar Grey July 19, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Significant patch for Fedora's Putty application tackles buffer overflow issues to bolster protection.
This is an update fixing CVE-2017-6542.

Summary

Putty is a SSH, Telnet & Rlogin client - this time for Linux.

This is an update fixing CVE-2017-6542.

[ 1 ] Bug #1431716 - CVE-2017-6542 putty: Integer overflow in the ssh_agent_channel_data

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1431716

su -c 'dnf upgrade putty' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora integer overflow Putty

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 0.70
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Summary: SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora integer overflow Putty

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