CVE-2007-6437
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.34% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 88.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-12-19 21:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 16:02Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-12-19
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 0d3f3799e0f75e93849addf44f6e4d64438dba490a6c94f3f770d6d0bdec593a
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com26897http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26897
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-0523https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00606.html
- seclists.org20071217 ZSA-2007-029: syslog-ng Denial of Servicehttp://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Dec/0202.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-1464http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1464
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-4257http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4257
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426173
- secunia.com28279http://secunia.com/advisories/28279
- secunia.com28118http://secunia.com/advisories/28118
- secunia.com28483http://secunia.com/advisories/28483
- securitytracker.com1019105http://securitytracker.com/id?1019105
- secunia.com28372http://secunia.com/advisories/28372
- www.osvdb.org39551http://www.osvdb.org/39551
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200712-19http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-19.xml
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-0559https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00610.html
- www.securityfocus.com20071217 Re: [syslog-ng] ZSA-2007-029: syslog-ng Denial of Servicehttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485181/100/0/threaded
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comsyslogng-timestamp-dos(39082)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39082
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- syslog-ng Fixed in 2.0.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- syslog-ng Fixed in 2.0.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- syslog-ng Fixed in 2.0.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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