Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/putty: security bump to version 0.80

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:00:39 +0100
Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> wrote:

> As described in the announcement, this fixes a security issue:
> 
> There is one security fix in this release:
> 
>  - Fix for a newly discovered security issue known as the 'Terrapin'
>    attack, also numbered CVE-2023-48795. The issue affects widely-used
>    OpenSSH extensions to the SSH protocol: the ChaCha20+Poly1305
>    cipher system, and 'encrypt-then-MAC' mode.
> 
>    In order to benefit from the fix, you must be using a fixed version
>    of PuTTY _and_ a server with the fix, so that they can agree to
>    adopt a modified version of the protocol. Alternatively, you may be
>    able to reconfigure PuTTY to avoid selecting any of the affected
>    modes.
> 
>    If PuTTY 0.80 connects to an SSH server without the fix, it will
>    warn you if the initial protocol negotiation chooses an insecure
>    mode to run the connection in, so that you can abandon the
>    connection. If it's possible to alter PuTTY's configuration to
>    avoid the problem, then the warning message will tell you how to do
>    it.
> 
> https://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/putty-announce/2023/000037.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
> ---
>  package/putty/putty.hash | 8 ++++----
>  package/putty/putty.mk   | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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