RE: iDEFENSE Security Advisory 01.28.03: SSH2 Clients Insecurely Store Passwords

[David Endler <dendler () idefense com>]

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Indeed, it is vulnerable in the same way as PuTTy.  I've contacted the
author, Martin Prikryl, who can hopefully turn around an update quickly.

- -dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Renzmann [mailto:security () dylanic de]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:25 PM
> To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] iDEFENSE Security Advisory 
> 01.28.03: SSH2
> Clients Insecurely Store Passwords
>
>
> Hi.
>
> iDEFENSE Labs wrote:
> [...]
> > PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 
> platforms,
> > along with an xterm terminal emulator. More information is 
> available at
> > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/.
> [...]
>
> AFAIK WinSCP2 is a program that relies on the codebase of PuTTY. Has 
> anyone information if WinSCP2 is also "vulnerable" to this?

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