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CVE-2016-2563

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2016-03-07	PuTTY - old-style scp downloads may allow remote code execution

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CVE-2016-2563 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2016-2563
Phase	Assigned(20160225)

Description

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.

References

Source	Reference
FULLDISC	20160309 CVE-2016-2563 - PuTTY/PSCP <=0.66 buffer overflow - vuln-pscp-sink-sscanf
MISC	https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-2563
CONFIRM	http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-pscp-sink-sscanf.html
GENTOO	GLSA-201606-01