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Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVSA-2008:158 ] silc-toolkit Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Mandrake 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).
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2008:158
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Package : silc-toolkit
 Date    : July 30, 2008
 Affected: 2008.0
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Problem Description:

 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.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 References:

 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1227
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1552
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Updated Packages:

 Mandriva Linux 2008.0:
 35e5d87de2aff27596270ae9e55ca8dd  2008.0/i586/libsilc-1.1_2-1.1.2-2.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
 efaac773338d54d32b51b0d53e55483b  2008.0/i586/libsilcclient-1.1_2-1.1.2-2.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
 873726229e4b414b8c422b424edd2dcc  2008.0/i586/silc-toolkit-1.1.2-2.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
 a1c102dd0788cc8ef7f48aa6bea26331  2008.0/i586/silc-toolkit-devel-1.1.2-2.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm 
 08dfd9be2c32c9ebac8da73803f62c6f  2008.0/SRPMS/silc-toolkit-1.1.2-2.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64:
 07b24c79c06810497cf581e7eeb06a11  2008.0/x86_64/lib64silc-1.1_2-1.1.2-2.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
 29075aa71e7e63b02e54001610facfea  2008.0/x86_64/lib64silcclient-1.1_2-1.1.2-2.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
 79d595aeb0f9764d6b5563097f7e958c  2008.0/x86_64/silc-toolkit-1.1.2-2.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
 855026158877e6963e81d4d1ab95f6f6  2008.0/x86_64/silc-toolkit-devel-1.1.2-2.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm 
 08dfd9be2c32c9ebac8da73803f62c6f  2008.0/SRPMS/silc-toolkit-1.1.2-2.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm
 _______________________________________________________________________

 To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi.  The verification
 of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

 All packages are signed by Mandriva for security.  You can obtain the
 GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

  gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

 If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

  security_(at)_mandriva.com
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Type Bits/KeyID     Date       User ID
 pub  1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
  
 
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