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CVE-2001-0738

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-10-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

LogLine function in klogd in sysklogd 1.3 in various Linux distributions allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (hang) by causing null bytes to be placed in log messages.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 1.3, 2.2
• Immunix: 6.2, 7.0, 7.0_beta

References

• http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2001-70-026-01
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99258618906506&w=2
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/249579
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7098
• http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2001-70-026-01
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99258618906506&w=2
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/249579
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7098

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