CVE-2006-6318: Stefan Ritt Elog Web Logbook

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The show_elog_list function in elogd.c in elog 2.6.2 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by attempting to access a logbook whose name begins with "global," which results in a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Stefan Ritt Elog Web Logbook: up to and including 2.6.2; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; …

Published 2006-12-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.