CVE-2007-6437 (GCVE-0-2007-6437)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-12-19 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 16:02
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2266 records in the last 180 days details
References
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http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485181/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2007-12-17 00:00
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}



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