CVE-2008-5618
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-12-17 02:00
Modified
2024-09-16 18:34
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.rsyslog.com/Topic4.phtml
Impacted products
n/an/a
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