CVE-2008-1227

HIGH 7.5CVE-2008-1227 · Published 10/03/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-1227 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting silc toolkit (silc).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.3%, higher than 91.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
silc toolkit silc	`= 1.1= 1.1.1= 1.1.2= 1.1.3= 1.1.4≤ 1.1.5`	No fix yet

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.

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