Candidate: CVE-2008-5617 PublicDate: 2008-12-17 02:30:00 UTC References: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5617 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508027 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. Ubuntu-Description: Notes: Bugs: Priority: low Discovered-by: Assigned-to: CVSS: Patches_rsyslog: upstream_rsyslog: released (3.18.6-1) dapper_rsyslog: DNE gutsy_rsyslog: DNE hardy_rsyslog: ignored (reached end-of-life) intrepid_rsyslog: needed (reached end-of-life) jaunty_rsyslog: not-affected (3.18.6-2) karmic_rsyslog: not-affected (3.18.6-2) lucid_rsyslog: not-affected (3.18.6-2) maverick_rsyslog: not-affected (3.18.6-2) natty_rsyslog: not-affected (3.18.6-2) devel_rsyslog: not-affected (3.18.6-2)