CVE-2011-4607 Information

Description

PuTTY 0.59 through 0.61 does not clear sensitive process memory when managing user replies that occur during keyboard-interactive authentication which might allow local users to read login passwords by obtaining access to the process’ memory.

Reference

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/499 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/500 http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/password-not-wiped.html