CVE-2008-1227 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2008-1227

Stack-based buffer overflow in the silc_fingerprint function in lib/silcutil/silcutil.c in...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

silc toolkit
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4

Timeline

Official Publish: March 10th, 2008
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.