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 products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
rsyslog rsyslog
before 5.7.6affected
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1488 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1488 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1488 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00005.html ↗
- https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/1ef709cc97d54f74d3fdeb83788cc4b01f4c6a2a ↗