CVE-2007-6437
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 3.3%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 3.3% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-6403)
- Published
- December 19, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-6403 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- balabit / syslog-ng open source edition
- balabit / syslog-ng premium edition
References
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Dec/0202.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28118(Vendor Advisory)
- 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
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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