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🛡️ openSUSE-SU-2024:0005-1 — putty (CVE-2023-48795)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Security update for putty

This update for putty fixes the following issues:

putty was updated to to release 0.80:

  • Fix CVE-2023-48795 [boo#1218128]
  • Update to release 0.79
  • Terminal mouse tracking: support for mouse movements which are

not drags, and support for horizontal scroll events (e.g.

generated by trackpads).

  • Fixed: PuTTY could fail an assertion if a resize control

sequence was sent by the server while the window was docked to

one half of the screen in KDE.

  • Fixed: PuTTY could fail an assertion if you tried to change the

font size while the window was maximised.

  • Update to release 0.78
  • Support for OpenSSH certificates, for both user

authentication keys and host keys.

  • New SSH proxy modes, for running a custom shell command or

subsystem on the proxy server instead of forwarding a port

through it.

  • New plugin system to allow a helper program to provide

responses in keyboard-interactive authentication, intended to

automate one-time password systems.

  • Support for NTRU Prime post-quantum key exchange,
  • Support for AES-GCM (in the OpenSSH style rather than

RFC�5647).

  • Support for more forms of Diffie-Hellman key exchange: new

larger integer groups (such as group16 and group18), and

support for using those and ECDH with GSSAPI.

  • Bug fix: server-controlled window title setting now works

again even if the character set is ISO 8859 (or a few other

Affected software

openSUSE-SU-2024:0005-1 is recorded against 1 package.

  • putty (fixed in 0.80-bp154.2.3.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 3 January 2024 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

lists.opensuse.org (Advisory)
bugzilla.suse.com (Report)
www.suse.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-01-03
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
putty — 0.80-bp154.2.3.1

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