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CVE-2007-6437 Detail

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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  12/19/2007

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.0 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink Resource
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Dec/0202.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-19.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019105
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1464
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485181/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26897
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4257
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426173
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39082
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00606.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00610.html

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-6437
NVD Published Date:
12/19/2007
NVD Last Modified:
10/15/2018