CVE-2011-1155 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can cause log rotation failure by using newline or backslash characters in log filenames, impacting system availability.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Not stated
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2011-1155?
CVE-2011-1155 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 30 Mar 2011.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-1155?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Gentoo Logrotate.
How do I fix CVE-2011-1155?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2011-1155 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-1155 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1155, GHSA-fcm8-m55c-7v4r.