putty

vendor:

Putty

by:

tintinweb

9,8

CVSS

CRITICAL

stack buffer overwrite

121

CWE

Product Name: Putty

Affected Version From: 0.59

Affected Version To: 0.66

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: CVE-2016-2563

CPE: a:sgtatham:putty

Metasploit: https://www.rapid7.com/db/vulnerabilities/gentoo-linux-cve-2016-2563/, https://www.rapid7.com/db/vulnerabilities/alpine-linux-cve-2016-2563/, https://www.rapid7.com/db/vulnerabilities/suse-cve-2016-2563/, https://www.rapid7.com/db/vulnerabilities/freebsd-vid-7f0fbb30-e462-11e5-a3f3-080027ef73ec/

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: win/nix

2016

The putty SCP command-line utility (pscp) is missing a bounds-check for a stack buffer when processing the SCP-SINK file-size response to a SCP download request. This may allow a malicious server to overwrite the stack buffer within the client- application potentially leading to remote code execution.

Mitigation:

Upgrade to the latest version of Putty.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

Source: https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-2563

Author:     <github.com/tintinweb>
Date:       Feb 20th, 2016
Name:           putty
Vendor:         sgtatham - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ 

Version: 0.59 [3] (~9 years ago) <= affected <= 0.66
Platform(s):    win/nix
Technology:     c

Vuln Classes:   stack buffer overwrite (CWE-121)
Origin:         remote
Min. Privs.:    post auth
CVE:            CVE-2016-2563

Summary

The putty SCP command-line utility (pscp) is missing a bounds-check for a stack buffer when processing the SCP-SINK file-size response to a SCP download request. This may allow a malicious server to overwrite the stack buffer within the client- application potentially leading to remote code execution.

PoC attached. patch attached.

Besides that, two minor issues have been reported in putty packet handling:

DoS condition in the parsing of SSH-Strings that lead to a nullptr read. (connect putty to poc.py and type x11exploit to trigger one of multiple occurrence of a crash, also works with x11forwarding disabled in putty)
DoS condition in the handling of unrequested forwarded-tcpip channels open requests that lead to a nullptr read. (connect putty to poc.py and type forwardedtcpipcrash to trigger crash)

Details

The vulnerable code is located in pscp.c [4] line 1498 (HEAD) and is based on an unbound sscanf string format descriptor storing an arbitrary length string in a 40byte fixed size stack buffer sizestr[40].


Proof of Concept:
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/39551.zip