Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:20162563000
Revision Date:2016-04-07Version:1
Title:CVE-2016-2563 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2016-2563
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'putty' package in cosmic is not affected (note: '0.67-1').
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