Security Advisory
CVE-2011-1488
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
A memory leak in rsyslog before 5.7.6 was found in the way deamon processed log messages are logged when $RepeatedMsgReduction was enabled. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of the rsyslogd daemon service by crashing the service via a sequence of repeated log messages sent within short periods of time.
Published Date
November 14, 2019
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory