CVE-2016-2563

NameCVE-2016-2563
DescriptionStack-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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs816921

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
putty (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)0.63-10+deb8u2vulnerable
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch0.67-3+deb9u1fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)0.74-1+deb11u1~deb10u2fixed
bullseye0.74-1+deb11u2fixed
bullseye (security)0.74-1+deb11u1fixed
bookworm0.78-2+deb12u2fixed
bookworm (security)0.78-2+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie0.82-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
puttysource(unstable)0.67-1816921

Notes

[jessie] - putty <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - putty <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-pscp-sink-sscanf.html
https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commitdiff;h=bc6c15ab5f636e05b7e91883f0031a7e06117947
https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-2563

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