CVE-2008-5618

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

RSYSLOG

First reported 16 years ago

2008-12-17 02:30:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-12-17 05:00:00

Affected Software

RSYSLOG 3.12.1

3.12.1

RSYSLOG 3.20.0

3.20.0

RSYSLOG 4.1.0

4.1.0

RSYSLOG 4.1.1

4.1.1

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