CVE-2011-1488

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
rsyslogrsyslogbefore 5.7.6affected

Weaknesses

  • Memory Leak

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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