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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2008-1552 Detail

Description

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.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (04/23/2008)

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

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29463 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29465 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29622 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29946 CVE, MITRE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-27.xml CVE, MITRE
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3795 CVE, MITRE
http://silcnet.org/general/news/?item=client_20080320_1 CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://silcnet.org/general/news/?item=server_20080320_1 CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://silcnet.org/general/news/?item=toolkit_20080320_1 CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2206 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:158 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490069/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28373 CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019690 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0974/references CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41474 CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00513.html CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00538.html CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-189 Numeric Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-1552
NVD Published Date:
03/31/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE