Medium severity · published Nov 14, 2019
CVE-2011-1490
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…
5.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 32% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
OP
Opensuse · Opensuse
11.4 · source: NVD
RS
Rsyslog · Rsyslog
before 5.7.6 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1490
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1490
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00005.html
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1490
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1490
Patch
https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/1ef709cc97d54f74d3fdeb83788cc4b01f4c6a2a
Third Party Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1490
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