According to Gentoo at
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/159880?rdf

<quote>

Description
===========

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PuTTY. Please review
the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact
======

An attacker could entice a user to open connection to specially crafted
SSH server, possibly resulting in  execution of arbitrary code with the
privileges of the process or obtain sensitive information.

Workaround
==========

There is no known workaround at this time.

</quote>

I don't know if this affects other Linux distros or Windows users.



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