[SECURITY] [DSA 3190-1] putty security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-3190-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
March 15, 2015 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : putty
CVE ID : CVE-2015-2157

Patrick Coleman discovered that the Putty SSH client failed to wipe out
unused sensitive memory.

In addition Florent Daigniere discovered that exponential values in
Diffie Hellman exchanges were insufficienty restricted.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.62-9+deb7u2.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been
fixed in version 0.63-10.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.63-10.

We recommend that you upgrade your putty packages.

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