MGASA-2016-0118

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    MGASA-2016-0118

    Published: 25 Mar 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-2563

    Summary: Updated filezilla packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: 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). FileZilla was vulnerable to this issue as it bundles a copy of PuTTY. The filezilla package has been updated to version 3.16.1, which fixes this issue and has many other fixes and enhancements.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0118.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17943, http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-pscp-sink-sscanf.html, http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html, https://filezilla-project.org/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: filezilla

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.16.1-1.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
    MGASA-2016-0118 | CVE-DB