Gentoo: GLSA-200408-04 Normal: PuTTY Arbitrary Code Execution Threat
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August 5, 2004
PuTTY contains a vulnerability allowing a SSH server to execute arbitrary code on the connecting client.
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200408-04
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: PuTTY: Pre-authentication arbitrary code execution
Date: August 05, 2004
Bugs: #59383
ID: 200408-04
Synopsis
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PuTTY contains a vulnerability allowing a SSH server to execute
arbitrary code on the connecting client.
Background
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PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix
platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
Affected packages
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1 net-misc/putty <= 0.54 >= 0.55
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