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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200712-19
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  Severity: Normal
     Title: Syslog-ng: Denial of Service
      Date: December 29, 2007
      Bugs: #202718
        ID: 200712-19

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Synopsis
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A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in Syslog-ng.

Background
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Syslog-ng is a flexible and scalable system logger.

Affected packages
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     Package              /  Vulnerable  /                  Unaffected
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  1  app-admin/syslog-ng       < 2.0.6                        >= 2.0.6

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

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

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

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

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

References
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  [ 1 ] CVE-2007-6437
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6437

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

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

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org/.

License
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Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/