Vulnerability Report

CVE-2000-1165

Title: syslog-ng malformed priority specifier causes crash

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2000-1165.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jan 09, 2001

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.76%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2000-1165: Balabit syslog-ng allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed log message that does not have a closing > in the priority specifier.

Impacted Vendors

balabit 1

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-01:02.syslog-ng.asc http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-11/0300.html http://www.balabit.hu/products/syslog-ng/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1981 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5576 ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-01:02.syslog-ng.asc http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-11/0300.html http://www.balabit.hu/products/syslog-ng/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1981 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5576

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2000-1165 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 09, 2001 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.