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) (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.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.098

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
(RHSA-2011:0407) Moderate: logrotate security update logrotate-3.7.8-12.el6_0.1.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2011:0407) Moderate: logrotate security update logrotate-3.7.8-12.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
CVE-2011-1155NCM

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234