Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703409
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3409-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'putty' package(s) announced via the DSA-3409-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'putty' package(s) announced via the DSA-3409-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: A memory-corrupting integer overflow in the handling of the ECH (erase characters) control sequence was discovered in PuTTY's terminal emulator. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to mount a denial of service or potentially to execute arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.62-9+deb7u3. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.63-10+deb8u1. For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.66-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.66-1. We recommend that you upgrade your putty packages. Affected Software/OS: 'putty' package(s) on Debian 7, Debian 8. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 4.3 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-5309 Debian Security Information: DSA-3409 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3409 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173021.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173094.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-01 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034308 SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2015:2023 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00099.html
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