MGASA-2015-0098

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    MGASA-2015-0098

    Published: 6 Mar 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-2157

    Summary: Updated putty and filezilla packages fix CVE-2015-2157

    Details: Updated putty and filezilla packages fix security vulnerability: PuTTY suite versions 0.51 to 0.63 fail to clear SSH-2 private key information from memory when loading and saving key files to disk, leading to potential disclosure. The issue affects keys stored on disk in encrypted and unencrypted form, and is present in PuTTY, Plink, PSCP, PSFTP, Pageant and PuTTYgen (CVE-2015-2157). The putty package has been updated to version 0.64, fixing this and other issues. The filezilla package, which contains a bundled version of PuTTY, has also been updated, to version 3.10.2.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0098.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15394, http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/private-key-not-wiped-2.html, http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/28/4, https://filezilla-project.org/newsfeed.php

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: putty

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/putty?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.64-1.mga4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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