Comment 4 for bug 423565

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

silc-server and silc-client both use the system library from silc-toolkit, so only silc-toolkit needs to be fixed. Intrepid and later are protected by Fortify-Source[1], rendering this vulnerability a DoS only.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CompilerFlags#-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2