Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-1951 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Oneidentity Syslog-Ng
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2011-8405.NASL description Patch 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 55462 published 2011-06-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/55462 title Fedora 14 : syslog-ng-3.1.4-4.fc14 (2011-8405) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201412-09.NASL description The 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 79962 published 2014-12-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79962 title GLSA-201412-09 : Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47800
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062107.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/26/1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709088
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45122
- http://git.balabit.hu/?p=bazsi/syslog-ng-3.2.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=09710c0b105e579d35c7b5f6c66d1ea5e3a3d3ff