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Gentoo: GLSA-200712-19 Normal: Syslog-ng Denial of Service Issue

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A vulnerability detected in Syslog-ng could lead to system crashes. Users are advised to upgrade promptly.
A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in Syslog-ng.

Summary

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

Synopsis ======= A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in Syslog-ng.
Background ========= Syslog-ng is a flexible and scalable system logger.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-admin/syslog-ng < 2.0.6 >= 2.0.6
========== 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 vul...

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