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CVE-2011-1155 Details

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057845.html	CVE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056992.html	CVE	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16	CVE	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/17	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/18	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/22	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/24	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/27	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/28	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/29	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/30	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/31	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/32	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/33	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/4	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/6	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/8	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/3	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/4	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/5	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/6	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/11	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/5	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/6	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/08/5	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/2	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/3	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/6	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/7	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/3	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/5	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/26	CVE	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/23/11	CVE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680797	CVE	Patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/43955	CVE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:065	CVE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0407.html	CVE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0791	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0872	CVE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0961	CVE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057845.html	[email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056992.html	[email protected]	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16	[email protected]	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/17	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/18	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/22	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/24	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/27	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/28	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/29	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/30	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/31	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/32	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/33	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/4	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/6	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/8	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/3	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/4	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/5	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/6	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/11	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/5	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/6	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/08/5	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/2	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/3	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/6	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/7	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/3	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/5	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/26	[email protected]	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/23/11	[email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680797	[email protected]	Patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/43955	[email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:065	[email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0407.html	[email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0791	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0872	[email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0961	[email protected]

see all 86 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-399	Resource Management Errors	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
gentoo logrotate	<= 3.7.9 3.3 r2 3.5.9 3.5.9 r1 3.6.5
CPE cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:::::::: cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.3:r2:::::: cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.5.9:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.5.9:r1:::::: cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.6.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.6.5:r1:::::: cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.1:r1:::::: cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.1:r2:::::: cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.6:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.7:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.8:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Product

Versions

gentoo logrotate

<= 3.7.9

3.3 r2

3.5.9

3.5.9 r1

3.6.5

CPE

cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.3:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.5.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.5.9:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.6.5:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.1:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.1:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:3.7.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 29, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Mar 31, 2011	Initial Analysis	[email protected]