CVE-2008-5110

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

syslog-ng does not call chdir when it calls chroot, which might allow attackers to escape the intended jail. NOTE: this is only a vulnerability when a separate vulnerability is present.

syslog-ng does not call chdir when it calls chroot, which might allow attackers to escape the intended jail. NOTE: this is only a vulnerability when a separate vulnerability is present.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2008-11-17 22:21:00

Last updated 4 years ago

2020-05-19 19:34:00

Affected Software

One Identity syslog-ng

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505791

SSRT100018

35748

Vendor Advisory

40551

Vendor Advisory

GLSA-200907-10

[oss-security] 20081117 CVE Request (syslog-ng)

ADV-2010-1796

Vendor Advisory

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505791

Third Party Advisory

SSRT100018

Broken Link

35748

Third Party Advisory

40551

Third Party Advisory

GLSA-200907-10

Third Party Advisory

[oss-security] 20081117 CVE Request (syslog-ng)

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

ADV-2010-1796

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