DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1155

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1155

    Published: 30 Mar 2011Last Modified: 14 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    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: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1155

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: logrotate

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/logrotate?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.8.0-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High