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CVE-2011-1490 Detail

Current 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

Source:  MITRE
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Severity

 


CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score: 5.5 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00005.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1490 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1490 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/1ef709cc97d54f74d3fdeb83788cc4b01f4c6a2a Patch Third Party Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1490 Third Party Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime NIST  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

Configuration 1 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Up to (excluding)
5.7.6

Configuration 2 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Configuration 3 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2011-1490
NVD Published Date:
11/13/2019
NVD Last Modified:
11/20/2019