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GLSA-200712-19 : Syslog-ng: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 29816

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200712-19 (Syslog-ng: Denial of Service)

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

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

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Syslog-ng users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-admin/syslog-ng-2.0.6'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200712-19

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 29816

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200712-19.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 12/31/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:syslog-ng, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 12/29/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6437

CWE: 20

GLSA: 200712-19