New version for the popular PuTTy program which hopefully reached the number 0.71 and fixes bugs that allowed fake requests connections.
The latest version of it PuTTY SSH and Telnet client released on 16/3/2019, adds protection against fake login and audit requests ID cardς τερματικού, που έχουν σκοπό να κλέψουν τις πληροφορίες σύνδεσης. Η new edition 0.71 comes after 20 months of inactivity and fixes a total of eight security issues.
Five of the vulnerabilities corrected with PuTTY 0.71 were found through the program bounty bug which was sponsored by European Ένωση, και είχε καθορίσει το ποσό των € 90,000 ως ανταμοιβή για όποιον αναφέρει σφάλματα και τρύπες στο λογισμικό με την εικοσάχρονη ιστορία του στο Internet.
However, PuTTY 0.71 fixes one serious overflow error which exists in all previous versions of the client program. Another significant weakness mentioned (through the European Union's reward program) is that of hijacking the help file (.CHM format) in the PuTTY variant for Windows.
Here you can see the list of all fixes made in 0.71. You can download the 0.71 version from here.