CVE-2016-2563
N/A
Published: April 7, 2016 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:44 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsPuttyKitty
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 33%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
v ≤ 0.66
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (7)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00131.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_FULLDISC
Source: [email protected]
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Mar/22x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-pscp-sink-sscanf.htmlx_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-2563Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-01Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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