CVE-2011-1490: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A memory leak in rsyslog before 5.7.6 was found in the way deamon processed log messages are logged when multiple rulesets were used and some output batches contained messages belonging to more than one ruleset. A local attacker could cause denial of the rsyslogd daemon service via a log message belonging to more than one ruleset

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.4 only
• Rsyslog Rsyslog: before 5.7.6 (fixed in 5.7.6)

Published 2019-11-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.