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CVE-2011-1155

Date: March 30, 2011

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

2.9

Related Resources (48)

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/3

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/2

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/24

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/27

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/28

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/29

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/26

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0407.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1155

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1155

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/08/5

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/6

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/8

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/5

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/6

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/6

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/5

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680797

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/4

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/3

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/4

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0791

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1155

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/11

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0872

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/22

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056992.html

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/17

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/18

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:065

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/43955

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/23/11

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2011-1155

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/30

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0961

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057845.html

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/7

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/31

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/6

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/5

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/32

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/3

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/33

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-1155

Severity Score

2.9

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	2.9
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	1.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2011-1155

Date: March 30, 2011

Language: C

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