CVE-2011-1490

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

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-2011-1490
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1490
• https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/1ef709cc97d54f74d3fdeb83788cc4b01f4c6a2a
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1490