Description
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
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-2011-1490 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1490 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1490 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00005.html ↗
- https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/1ef709cc97d54f74d3fdeb83788cc4b01f4c6a2a ↗