CVE-2008-1552

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-03-20
Bugzilla:
440049: CVE-2008-1552 libsilc: buffer overflow in PKCS#1 message decoding

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The silc_pkcs1_decode function in the silccrypt library (silcpkcs1.c) in Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) Toolkit before 1.1.7, SILC Client before 1.1.4, and SILC Server before 1.1.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PKCS#1 message, which triggers an integer underflow, signedness error, and a buffer overflow. NOTE: the researcher describes this as an integer overflow, but CVE uses the "underflow" term in cases of wraparound from unsigned subtraction.

Find out more about CVE-2008-1552 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat does not consider this issue to be a security flaw as SILC is not used in a vulnerable manner in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

More information can be found here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440049

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