[nycbug-talk] Minor security bug fixed in putty 0.62

Justin Dearing zippy1981 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 7 21:17:43 EST 2012


Hey all,

In the same light of "what if a remote host is compromised" from the sudo
thread on this list, putty was unnecessarily holding on to your password in
memory.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/password-not-wiped.html

Justin
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