debian · CVE-2011-1155

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:58:56 GMT

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CVE-2011-1155 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (logrotate), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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.

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