Information disclosure in Putty
CVE-2013-4208
The rsa_verify function in PuTTY before 0.63 (1) does not clear sensitive process memory after use and (2) does not free certain structures containing sensitive process memory, which might allow local users to discover private RSA and DSA…
Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure
EPSS: 0.001 (19.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Putty — versions 0.45, 0.46, 0.47
- Simon_tatham Putty — versions 0.53
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- [oss-security] 20130806 CVE request: three additional flaws fixed in putty 0.63 (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- 54533 (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- DSA-2736 (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1347 (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- 54379 (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory, Vendor Advisory)