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.
Published: 2007-12-19
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 5.8% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1464-1 New syslog-ng packages fix denial of service
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-6403 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.
History

Wed, 28 May 2025 14:30:00 +0000

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:02:36.775Z

Reserved: 2007-12-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-6437

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-12-19T21:46:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-6437

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-6437 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses