Advisories ยป MGASA-2020-0358

Updated putty package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 02 Sep 2020
Modification date: 02 Sep 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-14002

Description

PuTTY 0.68 through 0.73 has an Observable Discrepancy leading to an information
leak in the algorithm negotiation. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to
target initial connection attempts (where no host key for the server has been
cached by the client) (CVE-2020-14002).
                

References

SRPMS

7/core