CVE-2007-6437

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-6437
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-12-19 21:46:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionBalabit 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-20 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Balabit Syslog-ng Open Source Edition All All All All
Application Balabit Syslog-ng Premium Edition All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian update for syslog-ng - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Syslog-ng Timestamp NULL Pointer Dereference Bug Lets Remote Users Deny Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Fedora update for syslog-ng - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: syslog-ng-2.0.7-1.fc7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Syslog-ng: Denial of Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
syslog-ng Timestamps Denial of Service Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Bug 426173 – CVE-2007-6437 syslog-ng crash by message with invalid timestamp separator af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
Bugtraq: ZSA-2007-029: syslog-ng Denial of Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org
www.osvdb.org/39551 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1464-1 syslog-ng af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: syslog-ng-2.0.7-1.fc8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Gentoo update for syslog-ng - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
BalaBit IT Security syslog-ng NULL-Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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