CVE-2008-1227

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-03-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Silc Toolkit: through 1.1.5; 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4

References

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/SILC%20Toolkit%201.1.6
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
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html

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