CVE-2000-1165: Balabit Syslog-NG

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Balabit syslog-ng allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed log message that does not have a closing > in the priority specifier.

Affected products

  • Balabit Syslog-NG: up to and including 1.4.6; version 1.4.7 only; version 1.4.8 only

Published 2001-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.