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SILC Products PKSC#1 Message Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : SILC Products PKSC#1 Message Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2008-0974
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1552
Rated as : High Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-03-25

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SILC Toolkit and SILC Client, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system [...]

Solution

Upgrade to SILC Server version 1.1.2 :
http://www.silcnet.org/software/download/server

Upgrade to SILC Toolkit version 1.1.7 :
http://www.silcnet.org/software/download/toolkit

Upgrade to SILC Client version 1.1.4 :
http://www.silcnet.org/software/download/client/

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Ariel Waissbein, Pedro Varangot, Martin Mizrahi, Oren Isacson, Carlos Garcia and Ivan Arce (Core Security Technologies).

ChangeLog

2008-03-25 : Initial release
2008-03-26 : Updated References

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