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Gentoo: GLSA-200502-28 Normal: PuTTY Remote Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey February 21, 2005
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The Gentoo GLSA 200502-28 highlights vulnerabilities in PuTTY that may allow remote code execution. It advises updating PuTTY, applying patches, and auditing security.
PuTTY was found to contain vulnerabilities that can allow a malicious SFTP server to execute arbitrary code on unsuspecting PSCP and PSFTP clients

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-28 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: PuTTY: Remote code execution Date: February 21, 2005 Bugs: #82753 ID: 200502-28

Synopsis ======= PuTTY was found to contain vulnerabilities that can allow a malicious SFTP server to execute arbitrary code on unsuspecting PSCP and PSFTP clients.
Background ========= PuTTY is a popular SSH client, PSCP is a secure copy implementation, and PSFTP is a SSH File Transfer Protocol client.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/putty < 0.57 >= 0.57
========== Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the PSCP and PSFTP clients, which can be...

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