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syslog-ng Timestamps Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA28118
Release Date: 2007-12-18
Last Update: 2007-12-21
Popularity: 6,033 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:syslog-ng 1.x
syslog-ng 2.x
syslog-ng Premium Edition 2.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in syslog-ng, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to the improper processing of incoming timestamps. This can be exploited to trigger a NULL pointer dereference via a specially crafted message containing a timestamp without a terminating space character.

The vulnerability is reported in syslog-ng versions prior to 2.0.6 and syslog-ng Premium Edition versions prior to 2.1.8.

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