CVE-2008-5617

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 17, 2008
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Dec 16, 2008

Description

The ACL handling in rsyslog 3.12.1 to 3.20.0, 4.1.0, and 4.1.1 does not follow $AllowedSender directive, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and spoof log messages or create a large number of spurious messages.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://www.rsyslog.com/Article327.phtml
rsyslog-allowedsender-security-bypass(47080)vdb-entry
http://www.rsyslog.com/Article322.phtml
http://www.rsyslog.com/Topic4.phtml
32630vdb-entry
32857third-party-advisory

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