debian · CVE-2016-2563

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:58:57 GMT

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CVE-2016-2563 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (putty), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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.

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