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openSUSE: 2024:0111-2 Critical: Putty Vulnerability Fix

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Calendar Grey April 19, 2024
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This crucial software patch for WinSCP tackles vulnerabilities and guarantees enhanced protection for your system. Update today!
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for putty fixes the following issues:

Update to release 0.81

* Fix CVE-2024-31497: NIST P521 / ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 signatures are no

longer generated with biased values of k. The previous bias compromises

private keys.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update vulnerability important openSUSE putty

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2024-111=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

putty-0.81-bp155.2.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-31497.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2024:0111-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 .

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Topics Covered

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