CVE-2008-6058

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2008-6058 · Published 05/02/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-6058 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting syslserve (syslserve).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 72.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
syslserve syslserve	`= 1.01= 1.02= 1.03= 1.04= 1.05= 1.051= 1.052= 1.053= 1.054= 1.055= 1.056= 1.058≤ 1.059`	No fix yet

Syslserve 1.058 and earlier, and probably 1.059, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via a crafted UDP Syslog packet.

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