Denial of Service Vulnerability in logrotate 3.7.9 and Earlier

CVE-2011-1155 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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