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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2015-1047
2015-03-08 20:50:05
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Name : putty
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 0.63
Release : 4.el6
URL :
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Summary : SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client
Description :
Putty is a SSH, Telnet & Rlogin client - this time for Linux.
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Update Information:
Fixed an issue when private keys weren't scrub from memory after use.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1198192 - CVE-2015-2157 putty: failure to scrub private keys from memory
after use
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198192
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update putty' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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