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Serious Security Hole In PuTTY

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 4, 2004 @12:37AM from the and-now-it's-fixed dept.

Tim 'gk^' Nilimaa writes "A serious security hole has been found in PuTY, version 0.54 and before. Simon Tatham and his fellows released PuTTY 0.55 on 2004-08-03 which solves this bug. The bug may allow servers to use PuTTY to act as a machine that you trust, even beforce you verify the hosts key while connecting using SSH2. An attack could be a fact before you know that you have connected to the wrong machine. I (and they) say: upgrade to PuTTY 0.55 - now."

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Putty Question by Gigs · 2004-08-04 01:05 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Does anyone know how to control putty's screen location? I use putty alot and it always starts at the very top of the screen under a toolbar I have there.