New PuTTY — security vulnerability

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 | Jim Cheetham | Comments Off on New PuTTY — security vulnerability

There is a new version of the excellent & venerable PuTTY tool, due to a security vulnerability that might expose your session passwords in memory.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/password-not-wiped.html contains the details of the problem, and http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html will help you find the files you need to address the problem.