Vulnerability CVE-2007-6437
Published: 2007-12-19   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Balabit -> Syslog-ng open source edition 
Balabit -> Syslog-ng premium edition 

 References:
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Dec/0202.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-19.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019105
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1464
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485181/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26897
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4257
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426173
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39082
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00606.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00610.html
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