GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2017-93

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published March 27, 2017

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).

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	putty	0 (affected), 0.68-1.mga5 (unaffected), 0 (affected), 0.68-1.mga5 (unaffected)	—
Mageia	mariadb	0 (affected), 10.1.28-1.mga6 (unaffected)	—

Aliases

CVE-2017-6542

References

Updated putty packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated putty packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated putty packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated mariadb packages fix various bugs

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Updated mariadb packages fix various bugs

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Updated mariadb packages fix various bugs

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Updated mariadb packages fix various bugs

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