Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-1200

RCE

Title: Syslog-NG macro expansion buffer overflow RCE/DoS

RCE/Denial of Service

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-1200.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Oct 28, 2002
Modified Date Apr 03, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
6.53%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-1200: Balabit Syslog-NG 1.4.x before 1.4.15, and 1.5.x before 1.5.20, when using template filenames or output, does not properly track the size of a buffer when constant characters are encountered during macro expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code.

Impacted Vendors

B
balabit 1
O
oneidentity 1

Reference Links

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000547 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103426595021928&w=2 http://www.balabit.hu/static/zsa/ZSA-2002-014-en.txt http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-175 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10339.php http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/other_advisory-2513.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2002_039_syslog_ng.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5934 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000547 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103426595021928&w=2 http://www.balabit.hu/static/zsa/ZSA-2002-014-en.txt http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-175 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10339.php http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/other_advisory-2513.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2002_039_syslog_ng.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5934
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-1200 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.