National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1951

Overview

lib/logmatcher.c in Balabit syslog-ng before 3.2.4, when the global flag is set and when using PCRE 8.12 and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a message that does not match a regular expression.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709088

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709088

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110526 CVE Request -- syslog-ng -- Possible DoS

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/26/1

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.balabit.hu/?p=bazsi/syslog-ng-3.2.git;a=commit;h=09710c0b105e579d35c7b5f6c66d1ea5e3a3d3ff

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://git.balabit.hu/?p=bazsi/syslog-ng-3.2.git;a=commit;h=09710c0b105e579d35c7b5f6c66d1ea5e3a3d3ff

External Source: BID

Name: 47800

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47800

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45122

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45122

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-8405

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062107.html