CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-5618

Published: Dec 17, 2008 | Modified: Dec 17, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

imudp in rsyslog 4.x before 4.1.2, 3.21 before 3.21.9 beta, and 3.20 before 3.20.2 generates a message even when it is sent by an unauthorized sender, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via a large number of spurious messages.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Rsyslog Rsyslog 4.1.1 4.1.1
Rsyslog Rsyslog 4.1.0 4.1.0
Rsyslog Rsyslog 3.12.1 3.12.1
Rsyslog Rsyslog 3.20.0 3.20.0

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