CVE-2007-6437

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-12-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

Balabit Syslog-Ng Open Source Edition: through 2.0.6
Balabit Syslog-Ng Premium Edition: through 2.1.8

References

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Dec/0202.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28118
http://secunia.com/advisories/28279
http://secunia.com/advisories/28372
http://secunia.com/advisories/28483
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-19.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019105
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1464
http://www.osvdb.org/39551
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485181/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26897
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4257

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