Security update for putty
This update for putty fixes the following issues: putty was updated to to release 0.80: * Fix CVE-2023-48795 [boo#1218128] - Update to release 0.79 * Terminal mouse tracking: support for mouse movements which are not drags, and support for horizontal scroll events (e.g. generated by trackpads). * Fixed: PuTTY could fail an assertion if a resize control sequence was sent by the server while the window was docked to one half of the screen in KDE. * Fixed: PuTTY could fail an assertion if you tried to change the font size while the window was maximised. - Update to release 0.78 * Support for OpenSSH certificates, for both user authentication keys and host keys. * New SSH proxy modes, for running a custom shell command or subsystem on the proxy server instead of forwarding a port through it. * New plugin system to allow a helper program to provide responses in keyboard-interactive authentication, intended to automate one-time password systems. * Support for NTRU Prime post-quantum key exchange, * Support for AES-GCM (in the OpenSSH style rather than RFC�5647). * Support for more forms of Diffie-Hellman key exchange: new larger integer groups (such as group16 and group18), and support for using those and ECDH with GSSAPI. * Bug fix: server-controlled window title setting now works again even if the character set is ISO 8859 (or a few other
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
This update for putty fixes the following issues: putty was updated to to release 0.80: * Fix CVE-2023-48795 [boo#1218128] - Update to release 0.79 * Terminal mouse tracking: support for mouse movements which are not drags, and support for horizontal scroll events (e.g. generated by trackpads). * Fixed: PuTTY could fail an assertion if a resize control sequence was sent by the server while the window was docked to one half of the screen in KDE. * Fixed: PuTTY could fail an assertion if you tried to change the font size while the window was maximised. - Update to release 0.78 * Support for OpenSSH certificates, for both user authentication keys and host keys. * New SSH proxy modes, for running a custom shell command or subsystem on the proxy server instead of forwarding a port through it. * New plugin system to allow a helper program to provide responses in keyboard-interactive authentication, intended to automate one-time password systems. * Support for NTRU Prime post-quantum key exchange, * Support for AES-GCM (in the OpenSSH style rather than RFC�5647). * Support for more forms of Diffie-Hellman key exchange: new larger integer groups (such as group16 and group18), and support for using those and ECDH with GSSAPI. * Bug fix: server-controlled window title setting now works again even if the character set is ISO 8859 (or a few other
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