CVE-2001-0738: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 1.3 only; version 2.2 only
• Immunix Immunix: version 6.2 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.0_beta only

Published 2001-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.