imudp in rsyslog 4.x before 4.1.2, 3.21 before 3.21.9 beta, and 3.20 before 3.20.2 generates a message even when it is sent by an unauthorized sender, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via a large number of spurious messages.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-12-17T02:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T18:34:14.302Z

Reserved: 2008-12-16T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2008-5618

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-12-17T02:30:00.217

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:54:27.980

Link: CVE-2008-5618

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2008-12-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-5618 - Bugzilla