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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-17069: putty use-after-free on SSH1_MSG_DISCONNECT

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-17069: putty use-after-free on SSH1_MSG_DISCONNECT

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/01/2019
Created
01/02/2020
Added
01/02/2020
Modified
01/02/2020

Description

PuTTY before 0.73 might allow remote SSH-1 servers to cause a denial of service by accessing freed memory locations via an SSH1_MSG_DISCONNECT message.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-putty

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