CVE-2008-5618 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-5618 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 457273 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2009:001, published Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 06:35:39 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:29:48 2023