CVE-2011-4607 (GCVE-0-2011-4607)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-08-23 16:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:04
VLAI
Summary
PuTTY 0.59 through 0.61 does not clear sensitive process memory when managing user replies that occur during keyboard-interactive authentication, which might allow local users to read login passwords by obtaining access to the process' memory.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1088 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/500 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/499 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty… x_refsource_CONFIRM
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