Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-6437

Title: Balabit Syslog-Ng Open Source Edition Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-6437.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Dec 19, 2007

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.35%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-6437: Balabit syslog-ng 2.0.x before 2.0.6 and 2.1.x before 2.1.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a message with a timestamp that does not contain a trailing space, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Impacted Vendors

balabit 2

Reference Links

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Dec/0202.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28118 http://secunia.com/advisories/28279 http://secunia.com/advisories/28372 http://secunia.com/advisories/28483 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-19.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1019105 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1464 http://www.osvdb.org/39551 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485181/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26897 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4257 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426173 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39082 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00606.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00610.html http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Dec/0202.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28118 http://secunia.com/advisories/28279 http://secunia.com/advisories/28372 http://secunia.com/advisories/28483 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-19.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1019105 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1464 http://www.osvdb.org/39551 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485181/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26897 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4257 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426173 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39082 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00606.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00610.html

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-2007-6437 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 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 19, 2007 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.