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.

Affected

rsyslog

CVSS v3.1 NVD

5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0 NVD

1.9 LOWAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 40th percentile

Published

2019-11-14

Updated

2024-08-06

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

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

Security advisories

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00005.html
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1488
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1488

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry