Vulnerability in Gentoo Logrotate
CVE-2011-1155
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.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 1.9 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (31.6th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 31.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Gentoo Logrotate — versions 3.3, 3.5.9, 3.6.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19 (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16 (mailing-list, Patch)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25 (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/30 (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26 (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/3 (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/28 (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/08/5 (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/43955 (third-party-advisory)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/5 (mailing-list)