vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2019-9894): putty vulnerability

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Severity

6

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)

Published

Mar 21, 2019

Added

Nov 19, 2024

Modified

Apr 16, 2026

Description

A remotely triggerable memory overwrite in RSA key exchange in PuTTY before 0.71 can occur before host key verification.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-putty

References

Rapid7 Labs

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