FKIE_CVE-2008-5618

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-12-17 02:30 - Updated: 2025-04-09 00:30
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
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.rsyslog.com/Topic4.phtml
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
rsyslog rsyslog 3.12.1
rsyslog rsyslog 3.20.0
rsyslog rsyslog 4.1.0
rsyslog rsyslog 4.1.1
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