CVE-2011-1155

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.
References
Link Resource
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057845.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056992.html Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16 Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/17
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/18
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/22
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/24
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/27
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/28
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/29
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/30
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/31
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/32
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/33
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/8
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/11
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/08/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/2
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/26 Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/23/11
http://secunia.com/advisories/43955
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:065
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0407.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0791 Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0872
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0961
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680797 Patch
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.3:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.5.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.5.9:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.6.5:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.1:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.1:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

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Information

Published : 2011-03-30 22:55

Updated : 2023-12-10 11:03


NVD link : CVE-2011-1155

Mitre link : CVE-2011-1155

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2011-1155


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Products Affected

gentoo

  • logrotate
CWE
CWE-399

Resource Management Errors