Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.60189
Category:	Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:	Fedora Core 8 FEDORA-2008-0523 (syslog-ng)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to syslog-ng announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-0523. Update Information: Contains a security fix for CVE-2007-6437/ZSA-2007-029 DoS References: [ 1 ] Bug #400661 - The syslog-ng an rsyslog packages should conflict https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400661 [ 2 ] Bug #426173 - CVE-2007-6437 syslog-ng crash by message with invalid timestamp separator https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426173 [ 3 ] Bug #265221 - syslog-ng fails to build due to debuginfo issue https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=265221 [ 4 ] Bug #426306 - CVE-2007-6437 syslog-ng crash by message with invalid timestamp separator [8] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426306 Solution: Apply the appropriate updates. This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update syslog-ng' at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-0523 Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 5.0
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-6437 BugTraq ID: 26897 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26897 Bugtraq: 20071217 Re: [syslog-ng] ZSA-2007-029: syslog-ng Denial of Service (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485181/100/0/threaded Bugtraq: 20071217 ZSA-2007-029: syslog-ng Denial of Service (Google Search) http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Dec/0202.html Debian Security Information: DSA-1464 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1464 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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-19.xml http://www.osvdb.org/39551 http://securitytracker.com/id?1019105 http://secunia.com/advisories/28118 http://secunia.com/advisories/28279 http://secunia.com/advisories/28372 http://secunia.com/advisories/28483 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4257 XForce ISS Database: syslogng-timestamp-dos(39082) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39082
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