Download PuTTY 0.57 Beta

PuTTY has been updated to version 0.57. This program is one of the most popular telnet and SSH clients. The program is available for both the Windows– if Unix-platform. The developers have not a but two serious security vulnerabilities fixed in this version. Everyone is strongly advised to upgrade to 0.57. The release notes look like this:

PuTTY 0.57, released today, fixes two security holes which can allow a malicious SFTP server to execute code of its choice on a PSCP or PSFTP client connecting to it. We recommend everybody upgrade to 0.57 as soon as possible.