CVE-2008-5618

Published Dec 17, 2008

Last updated a month ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Deferred

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Vendor comments

  • Red HatNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the version of the rsyslog package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Configurations

References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.