Stack-based Buffer Overflow in PuTTY and KiTTY SCP Command-Line Utility

Stack-based Buffer Overflow in PuTTY and KiTTY SCP Command-Line Utility

CVE-2016-2563 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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