Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-1951 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Oneidentity Syslog-Ng

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN

Summary

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.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2011-8405.NASL
    descriptionPatch for CVE-2011-1951 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id55462
    published2011-06-30
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/55462
    titleFedora 14 : syslog-ng-3.1.4-4.fc14 (2011-8405)
  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201412-09.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-09 (Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011) Vulnerabilities have been discovered in the packages listed below. Please review the CVE identifiers in the Reference section for details. FMOD Studio PEAR Mail LVM2 GnuCash xine-lib Last.fm Scrobbler WebKitGTK+ shadow tool suite PEAR unixODBC Resource Agents mrouted rsync XML Security Library xrdb Vino OProfile syslog-ng sFlow Toolkit GNOME Display Manager libsoup CA Certificates Gitolite QtCreator Racer Impact : A context-dependent attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges, execute arbitrary code, cause Denial of Service, obtain sensitive information, or otherwise bypass security restrictions. Workaround : There are no known workarounds at this time.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id79962
    published2014-12-15
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79962
    titleGLSA-201412-09 : Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011