CVE-2020-14002

NameCVE-2020-14002
DescriptionPuTTY 0.68 through 0.73 has an Observable Discrepancy leading to an information leak in the algorithm negotiation. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to target initial connection attempts (where no host key for the server has been cached by the client).
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3794-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
putty (PTS)bullseye0.74-1+deb11u2fixed
bullseye (security)0.74-1+deb11u1fixed
bookworm0.78-2+deb12u2fixed
bookworm (security)0.78-2+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie0.81-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
puttysourcebuster0.74-1+deb11u1~deb10u1DLA-3794-1
puttysource(unstable)0.74-1

Notes

[stretch] - putty <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - putty <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
Introduced by: https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commit;h=d21041f7f8846b16ff6d72ed696d6190627e19b4 (0.68)
Fixed by: https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commit;h=08f1e2a5066ea95559945af339a60ca14560d764 (0.74)

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