[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 6 Update: putty-0.63-4.el6

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2015-1047
2015-03-08 20:50:05
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Name        : putty
Product     : Fedora EPEL 6
Version     : 0.63
Release     : 4.el6
URL         : http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Summary     : SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client
Description :
Putty is a SSH, Telnet & Rlogin client - this time for Linux.

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Update Information:

Fixed an issue when private keys weren't scrub from memory after use.

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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1198192 - CVE-2015-2157 putty: failure to scrub private keys from memory after use
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198192
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update putty' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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