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CVE-2011-1155

CVE-2011-1155

EPSS 0.4%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057845.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056992.htmlhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/17http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/18http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/22http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/24http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/27http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/28