Security Advisory

CVE-2008-5618

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-12-17 02:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-16 18:34:14
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

imudp in rsyslog 4.x before 4.1.2, 3.21 before 3.21.9 beta, and 3.20 before 3.20.2 generates a message even when it is sent by an unauthorized sender, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via a large number of spurious messages.