| Summary | SILC remote crash |
|---|---|
| Date | 2011-09-29 |
| CVE Number | CVE-2011-4603 |
| Discovered By | Diego Bauche Madero from IOActive |
| Fixed In Release | 2.10.1 |
When receiving various incoming messages, the SILC protocol plugin failed to validate that a piece of text was UTF-8. In some cases invalid UTF-8 data would lead to a crash. This vulnerability is similar to CVE-2011-3594, but occurs in a different piece of code and was fixed at a later date.
Validate incoming strings as UTF-8 before using them as such.