SILC: Multiple vulnerabilities

SILC: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in SILC Toolkit and SILC Client, the worst of which allowing for execution of arbitrary code. silc-toolkit silc-client 2010-06-01 2010-06-01 284561 remote 1.1.10 1.1.10 1.1.8 1.1.8

SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing protocol) Toolkit is a software development kit for use in clients, and SILC Client is an IRSSI-based text client.

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in SILC Toolkit and SILC Client. For further information please consult the CVE entries referenced below.

A remote attacker could overwrite stack locations and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted OID value, Content-Length header or format string specifiers in a nickname field or channel name.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All SILC Toolkit users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/silc-toolkit-1.1.10"

All SILC Client users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/silc-client-1.1.8"

CVE-2008-7159 CVE-2008-7160 CVE-2009-3051 CVE-2009-3163 craig keytoaster vorlon