| Name | CVE-2011-1488 |
| Description | A memory leak in rsyslog before 5.7.6 was found in the way deamon processed log messages are logged when $RepeatedMsgReduction was enabled. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of the rsyslogd daemon service by crashing the service via a sequence of repeated log messages sent within short periods of time. |
| 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 |
|---|
| rsyslog (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 8.4.2-1+deb8u3 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 8.24.0-1+deb9u3 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 8.1901.0-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 8.2102.0-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 8.2302.0-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 8.2410.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| rsyslog | source | (unstable) | 5.7.6-1 | low | | |
Notes
[squeeze] - rsyslog <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[lenny] - rsyslog <no-dsa> (Minor issue)