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CVE-2011-1490

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 multiple rulesets were used and some output batches contained messages belonging to more than one ruleset. A local attacker could cause denial of the rsyslogd daemon service via a log message belonging to more than one ruleset

Vendor	Product	Versions
rsyslog	rsyslog	affected `before 5.7.6`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1490

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1490

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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1490

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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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