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PuTTY SSH2 authentication password persistence weakness
- Family:
- Windows
- Category:
- infos
- Copyright:
- This script is Copyright (C) 2004 David Maciejak
- Summary:
- Determine PuTTY version
- Version:
- $Revision: 1.3 $
- Cve_id:
- CAN-2003-0048
- Bugtraq_id:
- 6724
- Xrefs:
- OSVDB:7687
- Description:
PuTTY is a free SSH client.
It has been reported that this version does not safely handle password information.
As a result, a local user may be able to recover authentication passwords.
Solution : Upgrade to the newest version of PuTTY
Risk factor : High
Generiert am 27.04.2005 um 18:49:54 Uhr.