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SILC Toolkit "silc_fingerprint()" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA29174
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Release Date:
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2008-03-05
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Last Update:
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2008-03-11
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | SILC Secure Internet Live Conferencing Toolkit 1.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2008-1227 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) Toolkit, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the toolkit.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the function "silc_fingerprint()" in lib/silcutil/silcutil.c, which can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow if overly long data is passed to the function.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.1.6.
Note: Other changes, which may be security relevant, were also reported.
Solution:
Update to version 1.1.6.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Nathan G. Grennan
Changelog:
2008-03-11: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
SILC Toolkit 1.1.6 ChangeLog:
http://silcnet.org/docs/changelog/SILC%20Toolkit%201.1.6
Red Hat Bug Report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372021
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1. SILC "silc_pkcs1_decode" Integer Overflow Vulnerability
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2. SILC Client and SILC Toolkit "NICK_CHANGE" Buffer Overflow
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