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 (16)
Core 16
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26897
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00606.html
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Dec/0202.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1464
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry
x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4257
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426173
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28279
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory
x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28118
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28483
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019105
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28372
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/39551
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-19.xml
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00610.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485181/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39082
Scores
EPSS
0.0335
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Details
CWE
CWE-20
Status
published
Products (2)
balabit/syslog-ng_open_source_edition
< 2.0.6
balabit/syslog-ng_premium_edition
< 2.1.8
Published
Dec 19, 2007
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026