CVE-2011-1488

Name	CVE-2011-1488
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
rsyslog (PTS)	buster, buster (security)	8.1901.0-1+deb10u2	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	8.2102.0-2+deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	8.2212.0-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
rsyslog	source	(unstable)	5.7.6-1	low

[squeeze] - rsyslog <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[lenny] - rsyslog <no-dsa> (Minor issue)