Denial of Service Vulnerability in LogLine Function of sysklogd 1.3

CVE-2001-0738 · MEDIUM Severity

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

LogLine function in klogd in sysklogd 1.3 in various Linux distributions allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (hang) by causing null bytes to be placed in log messages.

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