Vulnerability CVE-2011-0343
Published: 2011-01-28   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Balabit syslog-ng 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 OSE and PE, when running on FreeBSD or HP-UX, does not properly perform cast operations, which causes syslog-ng to use a default value of -1 to create log files with insecure permissions (07777), which allows local users to read and write to these log files.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
syslog-ng wrong file permission vulnerability
SZALAY Attila
01.02.2011

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.9/10
10/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Balabit -> Syslog-ng 

 References:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608491
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515955/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45988
https://lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000101.html
https://lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000102.html
Copyright 2024, cxsecurity.com

 

Back to Top