Vigil@nce - syslog-ng: memory leak
July 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can create a memory leak of syslog-ng, in order to
trigger a denial of service.
Impacted products: syslog-ng
Severity: 1/4
Creation date: 21/07/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The syslog-ng product logs messages.
However, the memory allocated to process some messages is never
freed.
An attacker can therefore create a memory leak of syslog-ng, in
order to trigger a denial of service.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/syslog-ng-memory-leak-15077