CVE-2008-1227: Silc Toolkit

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the silc_fingerprint function in lib/silcutil/silcutil.c in Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) Toolkit 1.1.5, and unspecified earlier versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via long input data. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Silc Silc Toolkit: up to and including 1.1.5; version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; version 1.1.3 only; version 1.1.4 only

Published 2008-03-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.