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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Access Vector
- local
- Access Cmplx
- medium
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- partial
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- GENTOO
- Published
- 3/30/2011
- Last Modified
- 4/11/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
gentoo : logrotategentoo : logrotategentoo : logrotategentoo : logrotategentoo : logrotategentoo : logrotategentoo : logrotategentoo : logrotategentoo : logrotategentoo : logrotategentoo : logrotategentoo : logrotategentoo : logrotategentoo : logrotate
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