FKIE_CVE-2008-1227
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-03-10 17:44 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:51
Severity
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| silc | silc_toolkit | * | |
| silc | silc_toolkit | 1.1 | |
| silc | silc_toolkit | 1.1.1 | |
| silc | silc_toolkit | 1.1.2 | |
| silc | silc_toolkit | 1.1.3 | |
| silc | silc_toolkit | 1.1.4 |
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