Bug 680797 (CVE-2011-1155) - CVE-2011-1155 logrotate: DoS due improper escaping of file names within 'write state' action
Summary: CVE-2011-1155 logrotate: DoS due improper escaping of file names within 'writ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-1155
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 688518 688519 688520
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-27 19:38 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-24 16:25 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-07-30 13:13:30 UTC
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proposed patch (1.80 KB, patch)
2011-03-01 12:09 UTC, Jan Kaluža 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:0407 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: logrotate security update 2011-03-31 15:16:26 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-02-27 19:38:57 UTC 
A denial of service flaw was found in the way the logrotate utility
performed arguments sanitization, when performing the 'write state'
action. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause abort in
subsequent logrotate runs via a specially-crafted log file name.
Comment 3 Jan Kaluža 2011-03-01 12:09:46 UTC 
Created attachment 481603 [details]
proposed patch

This patch fixes the bug by escaping line-feed and backslash and by using 2 * PATH_MAX + 16 for buffer size if PATH_MAX is defined.
Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-03-17 10:01:49 UTC 
Created logrotate tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 688520]
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2011-03-31 15:16:35 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:0407 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0407.html
Comment 8 Josh Bressers 2011-06-29 17:44:45 UTC 
Statement:

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.
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