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.
Published: 2011-03-30
Score: 1.9 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-1168 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1172-1 logrotate vulnerabilities
References
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057845.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056992.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/17 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/18 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/22 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/24 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/27 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/28 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/29 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/30 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/31 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/32 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/33 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/4 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/6 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/8 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/3 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/4 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/5 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/6 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/11 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/5 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/6 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/08/5 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/3 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/6 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/7 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/3 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/5 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/26 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/23/11 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43955 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:065 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0407.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0791 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0872 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0961 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680797 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1155 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1155 cve-icon
History

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Gentoo Logrotate
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T22:14:27.789Z

Reserved: 2011-03-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-1155

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-03-30T22:55:02.440

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2011-1155

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2011-02-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-1155 - Bugzilla

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