openSUSE Putty Important Program Crash Fix Advisory 2026-20851-1

This update for putty fixes the following issues:

Changes in putty:

- Update to release 0.84

* Fixed a remotely triggerable double-free in RSA key exchange.

* Fixed a remotely triggerable crash (assertion failure - program

termination) in NIST ECDSA signature verification.

* Fixed marking of Telnet and Rlogin session data with a trust

sigil after you authenticated to a proxy (possibly allowing a

server to spoof a repeat proxy password prompt).

* New ability to run a specified command before starting the

connection, e.g. to perform wake-on-LAN or a port knock.

* Display 'pre-edit text', showing the progress of using multiple

keystrokes to compose a single Unicode character.

* Improved support for to running the GUI tools on Wayland (fixed

startup issues and tuned performance).

* Configuring a SSH certificate authority used to fail unless you

manually made a config directory, now fixed.

* Fixed a spurious "Network error: Socket is not...