Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name MDVSA-2008:158 First vendor Publication 2008-07-30
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2008-07-30
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A vulnerability was found in the SILC toolkit before version 1.1.5 that allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash), or possibly execute arbitrary code via long input data (CVE-2008-1227).

A vulnerability was found in the SILC toolkit before version 1.1.7 that allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PKCS#2 message (CVE-2008-1552).

The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:158

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)
50 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 5

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for silc-toolkit MDVSA-2008:158 (silc-toolkit)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_158.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for libsilc FEDORA-2008-2616
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_2616_libsilc_fc7.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for libsilc FEDORA-2008-2641
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_2641_libsilc_fc8.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200804-27 (silc-toolkit silc-client silc-server)
File : nvt/glsa_200804_27.nasl
2008-09-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: silc-irssi-client, silc-client
File : nvt/freebsd_silc-irssi-client.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
43762 SILC Multiple Products lib/silccrypt/silcpkcs1.c silc_pkcs1_decode Function ...

42738 SILC Toolkit lib/silcutil/silcutil.c silc_fingerprint() Function Remote Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-158.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-28 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200804-27.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-28 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_ff304c35fb5b11dc91c100e0815b8da8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-26 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-2616.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-26 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-2641.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_silc-toolkit-5094.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2014-02-17 11:39:34
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