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Debian DSA-1464-1 : syslog-ng - NULL pointer dereference

medium Nessus Plugin ID 29984

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Oriol Carreras discovered that syslog-ng, a next generation logging daemon can be tricked into dereferencing a NULL pointer through malformed timestamps, which can lead to denial of service and the disguise of an subsequent attack, which would otherwise be logged.

Solution

Upgrade the syslog-ng package.

The old stable distribution (sarge) is not affected.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.0-1etch1.

See Also

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 29984

File Name: debian_DSA-1464.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/16/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 1/15/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6437

CWE: 20

DSA: 1464