CVE-2008-1227 Information

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the silc_fingerprint function in lib/silcutil/silcutil.c in Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) Toolkit 1.1.5 and unspecified earlier versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via long input data. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/29174 http://secunia.com/advisories/29323 http://secunia.com/advisories/29946 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-27.xml http://silcnet.org/docs/changelog/SILC20Toolkit201.1.6 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:158 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28101 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0769 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372021 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41012