PT-2016-5210 · Simon Tatham+2 · Putty+2

Tintinweb · Published 2016-03-05 · Updated 2016-12-03 · CVE-2016-2563

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PuTTY versions prior to 0.67 KiTTY versions prior to 0.66.6.3

Description A stack-based buffer overflow issue exists in the SCP command-line utility, allowing remote servers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via a crafted SCP-SINK file-size response to an SCP download request.

Recommendations For PuTTY versions prior to 0.67, update to version 0.67 or later to resolve the issue. For KiTTY versions prior to 0.66.6.3, update to version 0.66.6.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1194

CVE-2016-2563

MGASA-2016-0112

MGASA-2016-0118

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Kitty

Putty

References · 24

• 🔥 https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-2563 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/39551 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2563 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2563 · Vendor Advisory
• http://chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-pscp-sink-sscanf.html · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2563 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2563 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-01 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00131.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0118 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2563 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0112 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2563 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2563 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0118.html · Security Note