CVE-2011-1490

MEDIUM

rsyslog < 5.7.6 - Denial of Service via Memory Leak in Ruleset Processing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1490
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1490
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1490
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00005.html

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0038
EPSS Percentile 29.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-772
Status published
Products (5)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
opensuse/opensuse 11.4
rsyslog/rsyslog < 5.7.6
Published Nov 14, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026