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CVE-2007-6437

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Description

Balabit syslog-ng 2.0.x before 2.0.6 and 2.1.x before 2.1.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a message with a timestamp that does not contain a trailing space, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00610.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00606.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39082

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426173

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4257

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26897

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485181/100/0/threaded

http://www.osvdb.org/39551

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1464

http://securitytracker.com/id?1019105

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-19.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/28483

http://secunia.com/advisories/28372

http://secunia.com/advisories/28279

http://secunia.com/advisories/28118

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Dec/0202.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-12-19

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.05183

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