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CVE-2000-1165

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2001-01-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Balabit syslog-ng allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed log message that does not have a closing > in the priority specifier.

Affected products

• Balabit Syslog-Ng: through 1.4.6; 1.4.7, 1.4.8

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-11/0300.html
• http://www.balabit.hu/products/syslog-ng/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1981
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5576
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-11/0300.html
• http://www.balabit.hu/products/syslog-ng/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1981
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5576

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