PT-2008-2820 · Silc · Silc Toolkit

Nathan G. Grennan · Published 2008-03-10 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-1227

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SILC Toolkit versions 1.1.5 and earlier

Description A stack-based buffer overflow issue exists in the silc fingerprint function, located in lib/silcutil/silcutil.c, which can be triggered by remote attackers sending long input data. This can cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, or potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code.

Recommendations For SILC Toolkit versions 1.1.5 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-1227

Affected Products

Silc Toolkit

References · 12

• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:158 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/28101 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29174 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-27.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1227 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29946 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0769 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372021 · Note
• http://silcnet.org/docs/changelog/SILC%20Toolkit%201.1.6 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41012 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29323 · Note