CVE-2005-2809: Silc Secure Internet Live Conferencing

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

silc daemon (silcd.c) in Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) 1.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the silcd.[PID].stats temporary file.

Affected products

• Silc Secure Internet Live Conferencing: version 0.9.11 only; version 0.9.12 only; version 0.9.13 only; version 0.9.14 only; version 0.9.15 only; version 0.9.16 only; …

Published 2005-09-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.