| Name | CVE-2011-1490 |
| 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 | 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)