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HistorySep 10, 2009 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2008-7159

2009-09-1000:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
6

CVSS2

5.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.021

Percentile

89.2%

The silc_asn1_encoder function in lib/silcasn1/silcasn1_encode.c in Secure
Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) Toolkit before 1.1.8 allows remote
attackers to overwrite a stack location and possibly execute arbitrary code
via a crafted OID value, related to incorrect use of a %lu format string.

Notes

Author Note
kees -fstack-protector stops this exploit, reducing it to a DoS

CVSS2

5.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.021

Percentile

89.2%