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It was found that putty is vulnerable to an integer overflow. An attacker could overwrite the heap data with his own if the system has SSH agent forwarding and he is able to connect to the Unix-domain socket representing the forwarded agent connection. Upstream patch: https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commitdiff;h=4ff22863d895cb7ebfced4cf923a012a614adaa8 References: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-agent-fwd-overflow.html
Created putty tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-5 [bug 1431718] Affects: epel-6 [bug 1431719] Affects: fedora-all [bug 1431720]
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