CVE-2011-1155
Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / CVE-2011-1155
Summary:
Details: 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.
References: http://secunia.com/advisories/43955, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:065, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0791, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0872, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0961, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056992.html, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/26, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680797, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057845.html, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/17, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/18, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/22, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/24, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/27, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/28, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/29, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/30, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/31, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/32, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/33, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/4, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/6, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/8, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/3, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/4, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/5, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/6, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/11, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/5, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/6, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/08/5, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/2, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/3, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/6, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/7, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/3, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/5, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/23/11, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0407.html
