MGASA-2016-0112

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    MGASA-2016-0112

    Published: 16 Mar 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-2563

    Summary: Updated putty packages fix CVE-2016-2563

    Details: Updated putty package fixes security vulnerability: Many versions of PSCP in PuTTY prior to 0.67 have a stack corruption vulnerability in their treatment of the 'sink' direction (i.e. downloading from server to client) of the old-style SCP protocol. In order for this vulnerability to be exploited, the user must connect to a malicious server and attempt to download any file (CVE-2016-2563). The putty package has been updated to version 0.67 to fix this issue and a few other bugs. The halibut package has been updated to version 1.1 to build the documentation.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0112.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17942, http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-pscp-sink-sscanf.html, http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: halibut

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/halibut?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.1-2.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High