SILC Server "NEW_CLIENT" Packet Denial of Service - Advisories

SILC Server "NEW_CLIENT" Packet Denial of Service

Secunia Advisory:	SA29459
Release Date:	2008-03-26

Critical:	Moderately critical
Impact:	DoS
Where:	From remote
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

Software:	SILC Secure Internet Live Conferencing Server 1.x

CVE reference:	CVE-2008-1429 (Secunia mirror)

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Description: A vulnerability has been reported in SILC Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of "NEW_CLIENT" packets. This can be exploited to crash the application via a "NEW_CLIENT" packet that does not contain a nickname. The vulnerability is reported in SILC Server prior to version 1.1.1. Solution: Update to version 1.1.1 or later. http://silcnet.org/software/download/server/ Provided and/or discovered by: Reported by the vendor. Original Advisory: http://silcnet.org/docs/release/SILC%20Server%201.1.1



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