CVE-2011-1155: Gentoo Logrotate

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Gentoo Logrotate: up to and including 3.7.9; version 3.3 only; version 3.5.9 only; version 3.6.5 only; version 3.7 only; version 3.7.1 only; …

Published 2011-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.