openSUSE-SU-2024:0005-1

This update for putty fixes the following issues:

putty was updated to to release 0.80:

• Fix CVE-2023-48795 [boo#1218128]

  • Update to release 0.79

• Terminal mouse tracking: support for mouse movements which are not drags, and support for horizontal scroll events (e.g. generated by trackpads).

• Fixed: PuTTY could fail an assertion if a resize control sequence was sent by the server while the window was docked to one half of the screen in KDE.

• Fixed: PuTTY could fail an assertion if you tried to change the font size while the window was maximised.

  • Update to release 0.78

• Support for OpenSSH certificates, for both user authentication keys and host keys.

• New SSH proxy modes, for running a custom shell command or subsystem on the proxy server instead of forwarding a port through it.
• New plugin system to allow a helper program to provide responses in keyboard-interactive authentication, intended to automate one-time password systems.
• Support for NTRU Prime post-quantum key exchange,
• Support for AES-GCM (in the OpenSSH style rather than RFC�5647).
• Support for more forms of Diffie-Hellman key exchange: new larger integer groups (such as group16 and group18), and support for using those and ECDH with GSSAPI.
• Bug fix: server-controlled window title setting now works again even if the character set is ISO 8859 (or a few other