A memory leak in rsyslog before 5.7.6 was found in the way deamon processed log messages are logged when $RepeatedMsgReduction was enabled. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of the rsyslogd daemon service by crashing the service via a sequence of repeated log messages sent within short periods of time.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2019-11-14T01:15:49

Updated: 2024-08-06T22:28:41.761Z

Reserved: 2011-03-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2011-1488

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-11-14T02:15:10.717

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:26:25.703

Link: CVE-2011-1488

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-1488 - Bugzilla