CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2011-1489
A memory leak in rsyslog before 5.7.6 was found in the way deamon processed log messages were logged when multiple rulesets were used and some output batches contained messages belonging to more than one ruleset. A local attacker could cause denial of the rsyslogd daemon service via a log message belonging to more than one ruleset.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-772
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- opensuse:opensuse
- rsyslog:rsyslog
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00005.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1489
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1489
- https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/1ef709cc97d54f74d3fdeb83788cc4b01f4c6a2a
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1489