MGASA-2017-0093 Updated putty packages fix security vulnerability

In PuTTY before 0.68, if SSH agent forwarding is enabled, local attackers that are also able to connect to the UNIX domain socket could have overwritten heap data CVE-2017-6542...

openSUSE Security Update : putty (openSUSE-2017-354)

This update to putty 0.68 fixes the following security issue : - CVE-2017-6542: If SSH agent forwarding is enabled, local attackers that are also able to connect to the UNIX domain socket could have overwritten heap data boo1029256 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

OpenSSH < 7.4 - agent Protocol Arbitrary Library Loading

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1009 The OpenSSH agent permits its clients to load PKCS11 providers using the commands SSHAGENTCADDSMARTCARDKEY and SSHAGENTCADDSMARTCARDKEYCONSTRAINED if OpenSSH was compiled with the ENABLEPKCS11 flag normally enabled and the age...

CVE-2000-1169

OpenSSH client prior to 2.3.0 can fail to disable X11 or agent forwarding, enabling a malicious SSH server to access the X11 display and sniff events or to access the ssh-agent. Affected component is the SSH client’s forwarding behavior; root cause is improper disabling of X11/agent forwarding. T...

openssh.forwarding.txt

Hostile servers can force OpenSSH clients to do agent or X11 forwarding 1. Systems affected: All versions of OpenSSH prior to 2.3.0 are affected. 2. Description: If agent or X11 forwarding is disabled in the ssh client configuration, the client does not request these features during session setup...

OpenSSH Security Advisory &#40;adv.fwd&#41;

Hostile servers can force OpenSSH clients to do agent or X11 forwarding 1. Systems affected: All versions of OpenSSH prior to 2.3.0 are affected. 2. Description: If agent or X11 forwarding is disabled in the ssh client configuration, the client does not request these features during session setup...