Security update for putty
This update for putty fixes the following issues: Changes in putty: - Update to release 0.84 * Fixed a remotely triggerable double-free in RSA key exchange. * Fixed a remotely triggerable crash (assertion failure - program termination) in NIST ECDSA signature verification. * Fixed marking of Telnet and Rlogin session data with a trust sigil after you authenticated to a proxy (possibly allowing a server to spoof a repeat proxy password prompt). * New ability to run a specified command before starting the connection, e.g. to perform wake-on-LAN or a port knock. * Display 'pre-edit text', showing the progress of using multiple keystrokes to compose a single Unicode character. * Improved support for to running the GUI tools on Wayland (fixed startup issues and tuned performance). * Configuring a SSH certificate authority used to fail unless you manually made a config directory, now fixed. * Fixed a spurious "Network error: Socket is not connected" when authenticating to some HTTP proxies.
Security update for putty
Description
This update for putty fixes the following issues: Changes in putty: - Update to release 0.84 * Fixed a remotely triggerable double-free in RSA key exchange. * Fixed a remotely triggerable crash (assertion failure - program termination) in NIST ECDSA signature verification. * Fixed marking of Telnet and Rlogin session data with a trust sigil after you authenticated to a proxy (possibly allowing a server to spoof a repeat proxy password prompt). * New ability to run a specified command before starting the connection, e.g. to perform wake-on-LAN or a port knock. * Display 'pre-edit text', showing the progress of using multiple keystrokes to compose a single Unicode character. * Improved support for to running the GUI tools on Wayland (fixed startup issues and tuned performance). * Configuring a SSH certificate authority used to fail unless you manually made a config directory, now fixed. * Fixed a spurious "Network error: Socket is not connected" when authenticating to some HTTP proxies.
Affected software
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- SUSE Product Security Team
- Advisory Id
- openSUSE-SU-2026:20851-1
- Cve Count
- 0
Threat ID: 6aab498155bf5e2cf5990ec7
Added to database: 09/17/2026, 01:59:29 UTC
Last updated: 09/17/2026, 02:02:25 UTC
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