medium5.5
CVE-2011-1488
A memory leak in rsyslog before 5.7.6 was found in the way deamon processed log messages are logged when $RepeatedMsgReduction was enabled.
Impact
A memory leak in rsyslog before 5.7.6 was found in the way deamon processed log messages are logged when $RepeatedMsgReduction was enabled. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of the rsyslogd daemon service by crashing the service via a sequence of repeated log messages sent within short periods of time.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Rsyslog | Rsyslog | before 5.7.6 |
| Opensuse | Opensuse | Version 11.4 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00005.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1488
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1488
- https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/1ef709cc97d54f74d3fdeb83788cc4b01f4c6a2a
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1488
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00005.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1488
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1488
- https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/1ef709cc97d54f74d3fdeb83788cc4b01f4c6a2a
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1488