openSUSE Security Update: Security update for putty ______________________________________________________________________________
Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:0474-1 Rating: moderate References: #920167 Cross-References: CVE-2015-2157 Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 openSUSE 13.1 ______________________________________________________________________________
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
Description:
The SSH Terminal emulator putty was updated to the new upstream release 0.64, fixing security issues and bugs:
Security fix: PuTTY no longer retains the private half of users' keys in memory by mistake after authenticating with them. [bsc#920167] (CVE-2015-2157)
New feature: Support for SSH connection sharing, so that multiple instances of PuTTY to the same host can share a single SSH connection instead of all having to log in independently.
Bug fix: IPv6 literals are handled sensibly throughout the suite, if you enclose them in square brackets to prevent the colons being mistaken for a :port suffix.
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE 13.2:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-218=1
- openSUSE 13.1:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-218=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):
putty-0.64-4.4.1 putty-debuginfo-0.64-4.4.1 putty-debugsource-0.64-4.4.1
- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):
putty-0.64-2.4.1 putty-debuginfo-0.64-2.4.1 putty-debugsource-0.64-2.4.1
References:
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2157.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/920167