[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: putty-0.64-1.fc21
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Sat Mar 14 09:23:10 UTC 2015
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-3160
2015-03-05 09:14:50
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Name : putty
Product : Fedora 21
Version : 0.64
Release : 1.fc21
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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ChangeLog:
* Tue Mar 3 2015 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 0.64-1
- New version
Resolves: CVE-2015-2157
* Tue Nov 11 2014 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 0.63-4
- Increased icon size to 48x48
Resolves: rhbz#1157564
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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 program. 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 Project GPG key. More details on the
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https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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