vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-2563: PuTTY: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 7, 2016
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the SCP command-line utility allows
remote servers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service
condition via a crafted SCP-SINK file-size response to an SCP download
request.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-putty
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