ALT-PU-2016-1194-1
Closed vulnerabilities
Published: 2016-04-07
Modified: 2025-04-12
Modified: 2025-04-12
CVE-2016-2563
Stack-based buffer overflow in the SCP command-line utility in PuTTY before 0.67 and KiTTY 0.66.6.3 and earlier allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted SCP-SINK file-size response to an SCP download request.
Severity: HIGH (7.5)
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Severity: CRITICAL (9.8)
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References:
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00131.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Mar/22
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-pscp-sink-sscanf.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84296
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035257
- https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-2563
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-01
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00131.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Mar/22
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-pscp-sink-sscanf.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84296
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035257
- https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-2563
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-01