From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Alexander Dahl <post@lespocky.de>, buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/putty: security bump to version 0.80
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 15:14:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231223151437.7d9c27dd@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231221140039.246333-1-peter@korsgaard.com>
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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2023-12-21 14:00 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/putty: security bump to version 0.80 Peter Korsgaard
2023-12-23 14:14 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
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