CVE-2011-1155 (GCVE-0-2011-1155)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-03-30 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:14
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
43 references
Date Public
2011-03-04 00:00
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