glsa-201006-07.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="201006-07">
  <title>SILC: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in SILC Toolkit and SILC Client,
    the worst of which allowing for execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">silc-toolkit silc-client</product>
  <announced>June 01, 2010</announced>
  <revised>June 01, 2010: 01</revised>
  <bug>284561</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-im/silc-toolkit" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.1.10</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.10</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="net-im/silc-client" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.1.8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.8</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    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.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in SILC Toolkit and SILC
    Client. For further information please consult the CVE entries
    referenced below.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    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.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All SILC Toolkit users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-im/silc-toolkit-1.1.10&quot;</code>
    <p>
    All SILC Client users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-im/silc-client-1.1.8&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-7159">CVE-2008-7159</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-7160">CVE-2008-7160</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3051">CVE-2009-3051</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3163">CVE-2009-3163</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 22 May 2010 11:17:59 +0000">
    craig
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 27 May 2010 13:36:35 +0000">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 27 May 2010 17:55:42 +0000">
    vorlon
  </metadata>
</glsa>