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CVE-2011-1488

Published: Nov 14, 2019

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
rsyslog	rsyslog	affected `before 5.7.6`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1488

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

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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1488

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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00005.html

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https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/1ef709cc97d54f74d3fdeb83788cc4b01f4c6a2a

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