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CVE-2011-1155

LOW · CVSS 1.9 EPSS 0.39%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2011-03-30 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a low severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 1.9. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

CVE
CVE-2011-1155
Severity
LOW
CVSS
1.9
EPSS
0.39%

Original NVD Description

The writeState function in logrotate.c in logrotate 3.7.9 and earlier might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (rotation outage) via a (1) \n (newline) or (2) \ (backslash) character in a log filename, as demonstrated by a filename that is automatically constructed on the basis of a hostname or virtual machine name.