| Name | CVE-2019-17068 |
| Description | PuTTY before 0.73 mishandles the "bracketed paste mode" protection mechanism, which may allow a session to be affected by malicious clipboard content. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| putty (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 0.63-10+deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 0.67-3+deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 0.74-1+deb11u1~deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 0.74-1+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 0.74-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 0.78-2+deb12u2 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 0.78-2+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 0.81-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| putty | source | wheezy | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| putty | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| putty | source | stretch | (not affected) | | | |
| putty | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| putty | source | (unstable) | 0.73-1 | | | |
Notes
[buster] - putty <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[stretch] - putty <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[jessie] - putty <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/putty-announce/2019/000029.html
Introduced by: https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commit;h=9fccb065a67c283d978b2e3394d6fff69b4f4f30 (0.72)
Fixed by: https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commit;h=2c279283cc695ade15bafb418a8207ef0edd89cd (0.73)