Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package putty  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
3.94% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-PUTTY-637374
  • published21 Mar 2019
  • disclosed21 Mar 2019

Introduced: 21 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-9898  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream putty package and not the putty package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Potential recycling of random numbers used in cryptography exists within PuTTY before 0.71.