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CVE-2011-1488

MEDIUM

5.5

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score5.5

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published11/14/2019

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

debian:debian_linuxopensuse:opensusersyslog:rsyslog

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-772

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00005.html(secalert@redhat.com)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1488(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1488(secalert@redhat.com)

https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/1ef709cc97d54f74d3fdeb83788cc4b01f4c6a2a(secalert@redhat.com)

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1488(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00005.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1488(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1488(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/1ef709cc97d54f74d3fdeb83788cc4b01f4c6a2a(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1488(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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