EU patches 20-year-old open source vulnerability
Ethical hackers taking part in a bug bounty programme on behalf of the European Union have uncovered a 20-year-old vulnerability.
HackerOne has released a patch for a flaw in 20-year-old open-source app PuTTY (WORLD'S MOST POPULAR FREE SSH CLIENT) that could have let hackers execute code remotely using the network file transfer program and crash it; the work was performed as part of the European Union Free and Open Source Software Audit program, where 132 other vulnerabilities have been discovered. "Tools like PuTTY are complex and it contains some functionality that isn't always used, and therefore it may be harder to uncover some security issues," said HackerOne's Shlomie Liberow.
Ethical hackers taking part in a bug bounty programme on behalf of the European Union have uncovered a 20-year-old vulnerability.
HackerOne has released a patch for a flaw in 20-year-old open-source app PuTTY (WORLD'S MOST POPULAR FREE SSH CLIENT) that could have let hackers execute code remotely using the network file transfer program and crash it; the work was performed as part of the European Union Free and Open Source Software Audit program, where 132 other vulnerabilities have been discovered. "Tools like PuTTY are complex and it contains some functionality that isn't always used, and therefore it may be harder to uncover some security issues," said HackerOne's Shlomie Liberow.
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