CVE-2008-7160

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-12-13
Bugzilla:
521256: CVE-2008-7160 libsilc: stack corruption in SilcHttpServer on 64bit archs

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The silc_http_server_parse function in lib/silchttp/silchttpserver.c in the internal HTTP server in silcd in Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) Toolkit before 1.1.9 allows remote attackers to overwrite a stack location and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Content-Length header, related to incorrect use of a %lu format string.

Find out more about CVE-2008-7160 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of libsilc as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, or 5.

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