Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.1.2.2015.347
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-347-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'putty' package(s) announced via the DLA-347-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'putty' package(s) announced via the DLA-347-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: It was discovered that PuTTY's terminal emulator did not properly validate the parameter to the ECH (erase characters) control sequence, allowing a denial of service and possibly remote code execution. For the oldoldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.60+2010-02-20-1+squeeze4. For the oldstable (wheezy) and stable (jessie) distributions, this problem will be fixed soon. Affected Software/OS: 'putty' package(s) on Debian 6. 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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