Vulnerability CVE-2011-1155


Published: 2011-03-30   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
The writeState function in logrotate.c in logrotate 3.7.9 and earlier might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (rotation outage) via a (1) \n (newline) or (2) \ (backslash) character in a log filename, as demonstrated by a filename that is automatically constructed on the basis of a hostname or virtual machine name.

Type:

CWE-399

(Resource Management Errors)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
1.9/10
2.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Gentoo -> Logrotate 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680797
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/26
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056992.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0961
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0872
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0791
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0407.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:065
http://secunia.com/advisories/43955
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/23/11
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/2
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/08/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/11
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/8
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/33
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/32
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/31
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/30
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/29
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/28
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/27
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/24
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/22
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/18
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/17
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057845.html

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