Vulnerability CVE-2011-1488
Published: 2019-11-14

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.

Type:

CWE-772

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
Rsyslog -> Rsyslog 
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00005.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1488
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1488
https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/1ef709cc97d54f74d3fdeb83788cc4b01f4c6a2a
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1488
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