Syslog-ng: Denial of service

Syslog-ng: Denial of service A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in Syslog-ng. syslog-ng 2007-12-29 2007-12-29 202718 remote 2.0.6 2.0.6

Syslog-ng is a flexible and scalable system logger.

Oriol Carreras reported a NULL pointer dereference in the log_msg_parse() function when processing timestamps without a terminating whitespace character.

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted event to a vulnerable Syslog-ng server, resulting in a crash.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Syslog-ng users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/syslog-ng-2.0.6"

CVE-2007-6437 rbu p-y p-y