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Debian: New syslog-ng packages fix denial of service

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LinuxSecurity.com: Oriol Carreras discovered that syslog-ng, a next generation logging daemon can be tricked into dereferencing a NULL pointer through malformed timestamps, which can lead to denial of service and the disguise of an subsequent attack, which would otherwise be logged.




Original Source: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/133404?rdf

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