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CVE-2007-6437

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-6437 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Balabit syslog-ng versions 2.0.x before 2.0.6 and 2.1.x before 2.1.8. A remote attacker can crash the syslog-ng service by sending a malformed message with a timestamp lacking a trailing space, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:balabit:syslog-ng_open_source_edition:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2.1.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:balabit:syslog-ng_premium_edition:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0335 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-6437Low

syslog-ng crash by message with invalid timestamp separator

Dec 14, 2007

References

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