CVE-2011-1490

Medium

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

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability32. percentile0.4%
ProductRsyslog
PublishedNov 14, 2019
First seenNov 14, 2019

How to fix

Update
  • rsyslog rsyslog5.7.6 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
rsyslog rsyslogv < 5.7.65.7.6
debian debian_linux8.0, 9.0, 10.0—
opensuse opensuse11.4—

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