gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200712-19.xml

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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>2007-12-29</announced>
  <revised count="01">2007-12-29</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 "&gt;=app-admin/syslog-ng-2.0.6"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6437">CVE-2007-6437</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-12-22T13:17:29Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-12-28T23:09:28Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-12-28T23:09:43Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>