CVE-2011-1155

Name	CVE-2011-1155
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
logrotate (PTS)	jessie	3.8.7-1	fixed
	stretch	3.11.0-0.1	fixed
	buster	3.14.0-4	fixed
	bullseye	3.18.0-2+deb11u2	fixed
	bookworm	3.21.0-1	fixed
	sid, trixie	3.22.0-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
logrotate	source	(unstable)	3.8.0-1

[squeeze] - logrotate <no-dsa> (Minor issue)