VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2011-1155
CVSS score1.9 LOW
EPSS probability0.39%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2011-03-30
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
The writeState function in logrotate.c in logrotate 3.7.9 and earlier might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (rotation outage) via a (1) \n (newline) or (2) \ (backslash) character in a log filename, as demonstrated by a filename that is automatically constructed on the basis of a hostname or virtual machine name.