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Security Risks in Older Versions

SUMMARY: Upgrade the Putty Telnet and SSH client if you use an older version.

According to the Putty author, security risks in older versions of Putty such as 0.56 and 0.57 exist, allowing malicious servers to execute code on computers running Putty clients. If you have not updated Putty in a while, now may be the time to do so. For the latest version:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

 

 
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