| Name | CVE-2007-6437 |
| 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 | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1464-1, DTSA-105-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 457334 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| syslog-ng (PTS) | bullseye | 3.28.1-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 3.28.1-2+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.38.1-5 | fixed |
| trixie | 4.8.1-4 | fixed |
| sid | 4.8.1-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[sarge] - syslog-ng <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)