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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-26933
The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - An issue was discovered in Xen 4.9 through 4.14.x. On Arm, a guest is allowed to control whether memory accesses are bypassing the cache. This means that Xen...
Fedora 21 : putty-0.64-1.fc21 (2015-3160)
Fixed an issue when private keys weren't scrub from memory after use. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...
PuTTY -- fails to scrub private keys from memory after use
Simon Tatham reports: When PuTTY has sensitive data in memory and has no further need for it, it should wipe the data out of its memory, in case malware later gains access to the PuTTY process or the memory is swapped out to disk or written into a crash dump file. An obvious example of this is th...