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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2011-03-30T22:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T22:14:27.789Z
Reserved: 2011-03-03T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2011-1155
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2011-03-30T22:55:02.440
Modified: 2024-11-21T01:25:40.687
Link: CVE-2011-1155
Redhat