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.

CVSS v3.1

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

CVSS v2.0

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, 39th 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

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2011-1487
• CVE-2011-1496
• CVE-2011-1485
• CVE-2011-1511
• CVE-2011-1479
• CVE-2011-1513