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| <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> |
| |
| <glsa id="200712-19"> |
| <title>Syslog-ng: Denial of Service</title> |
| <synopsis> |
| A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in Syslog-ng. |
| </synopsis> |
| <product type="ebuild">syslog-ng</product> |
| <announced>December 29, 2007</announced> |
| <revised>December 29, 2007: 01</revised> |
| <bug>202718</bug> |
| <access>remote</access> |
| <affected> |
| <package name="app-admin/syslog-ng" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">2.0.6</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.6</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| </affected> |
| <background> |
| <p> |
| Syslog-ng is a flexible and scalable system logger. |
| </p> |
| </background> |
| <description> |
| <p> |
| Oriol Carreras reported a NULL pointer dereference in the |
| log_msg_parse() function when processing timestamps without a |
| terminating whitespace character. |
| </p> |
| </description> |
| <impact type="normal"> |
| <p> |
| A remote attacker could send a specially crafted event to a vulnerable |
| Syslog-ng server, resulting in a crash. |
| </p> |
| </impact> |
| <workaround> |
| <p> |
| There is no known workaround at this time. |
| </p> |
| </workaround> |
| <resolution> |
| <p> |
| All Syslog-ng users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| </p> |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/syslog-ng-2.0.6"</code> |
| </resolution> |
| <references> |
| <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6437">CVE-2007-6437</uri> |
| </references> |
| <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:17:29 +0000"> |
| rbu |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:09:28 +0000"> |
| p-y |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:09:43 +0000"> |
| p-y |
| </metadata> |
| </glsa> |