CVE-2008-7159: Silcnet Silc Toolkit

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The silc_asn1_encoder function in lib/silcasn1/silcasn1_encode.c in Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) Toolkit before 1.1.8 allows remote attackers to overwrite a stack location and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted OID value, related to incorrect use of a %lu format string.

Affected products

• Silcnet Silc Toolkit: up to and including 1.1.6; 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 2009-09-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.