[silc-toolkit] [CVE-2008-1552] possible arbitrary code execution

[disabled.user]

Binary package hint: silc

Quoting CVE-2008-1552:
'The silc_pkcs1_decode function in the silccrypt library (silcpkcs1.c) in Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) Toolkit before 1.1.7, SILC Client before 1.1.4, and SILC Server before 1.1.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PKCS#1 message, which triggers an integer underflow, signedness error, and a buffer overflow. NOTE: the researcher describes this as an integer overflow, but CVE uses the "underflow" term in cases of wraparound from unsigned subtraction.'

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Is there any reason this wouldn't affect silc-server as well? The source file in question is identical.

[4dro (kwadronaut)]

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/silc-client/1.1.4-1
A backport of silc-client 1.1.4-1 from intprepid to hardy could be put into proposed or security backports?
Version dependencies are satisfied, test on non amd-64 is just fine.