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CVE-2005-2809

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-09-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

silc daemon (silcd.c) in Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) 1.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the silcd.[PID].stats temporary file.

Affected products

• Silc Secure Internet Live Conferencing: 0.9.11, 0.9.12, 0.9.13, 0.9.14, 0.9.15, 0.9.16 (+6)

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94587
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16659/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/409672
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14716
• http://www.zataz.net/adviso/silc-server-toolkit-06152005.txt
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94587
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16659/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/409672
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14716
• http://www.zataz.net/adviso/silc-server-toolkit-06152005.txt

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