Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title PuTTY: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201308-01 First vendor Publication 2013-08-21
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2013-08-21
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Putty, allowing attackers to compromise user system

Background

PuTTY is a telnet and SSH client.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PuTTY. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

An attacker could entice a user to open connection to specially crafted SSH server, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or obtain sensitive information.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All PuTTY users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/putty-0.63"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2011-4607 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cvm?cvename=CVE-2011-4607
[ 2 ] CVE-2013-4852 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4852

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-01.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-01.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)
50 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18299
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18299
Title: DSA-2736-1 putty - several
Description: Several vulnerabilities where discovered in PuTTY, a Telnet/SSH client for X.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2736-1
CVE-2013-4206
CVE-2013-4207
CVE-2013-4208
CVE-2013-4852
CVE-2011-4607
Version: 8
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/Linux 7
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7
Product(s): putty
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 22
Application 45
Os 3
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
0000-00-00 Name : FreeBSD Ports: putty
File : nvt/freebsd_putty1.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-650.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-655.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-07 Name : The remote Windows host has an application installed that is affected by an i...
File : winscp_5_1_6.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-30 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-14794.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-15 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201309-08.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-22 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201308-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-21 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-14656.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-21 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-14676.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-20 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-14706.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-13 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2736.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-13 Name : The remote Windows host has an application that is affected by a remote integ...
File : filezilla_372.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-13 Name : The remote Windows host has an SSH client that is affected by multiple vulner...
File : putty_063.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-08 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_4b448a96ff7311e2b28d080027ef73ec.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-12-21 Name : The remote Windows host has an SSH client that is affected by an information ...
File : putty_062.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-12-13 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_bbd5f48624f111e195bc080027ef73ec.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:37:41
  • Multiple Updates
2013-08-23 21:22:06
  • Multiple Updates
2013-08-21 17:18:30
  • First insertion