CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1488
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772
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.
Affected configurations
• rsyslog rsyslog (< 5.7.6)
• opensuse opensuse 11.4
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1488 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1488 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/1ef709cc97d54f74d3fdeb83788cc4b01f4c6a2a github.com
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1488 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1488 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1488 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/1ef709cc97d54f74d3fdeb83788cc4b01f4c6a2a github.com
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1488 Third Party Advisory