CVE-2011-1490

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 0.4%

exploitation probability

0.4%top 68% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

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

Affected products

rsyslog · rsyslog

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00005.html https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1490 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1490 https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/1ef709cc97d54f74d3fdeb83788cc4b01f4c6a2a https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1490