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. 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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2019-11-14

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-772

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Opensuse (Opensuse)
• Rsyslog (Rsyslog)

References

• 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