Bug 1774040 (CVE-2019-17068)

Summary:	CVE-2019-17068 putty: mishandles the bracketed paste mode protection mechanism which may allow a session to be affected by malicious clipboard content
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	fedora, jima, jskarvad, olysonek, tremble
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Bug Depends On:	1774041, 1774042, 1774043
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-11-19 13:26:02 UTC

PuTTY before 0.73 mishandles the "bracketed paste mode" protection mechanism, which may allow a session to be affected by malicious clipboard content.

Reference:
https://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/putty-announce/2019/000029.html

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-11-19 13:26:21 UTC

Created putty tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1774041]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1774042]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1774043]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-11-19 18:51:15 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.