Candidate: CVE-2008-5618 PublicDate: 2008-12-17 02:30:00 UTC References: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5618 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510906 Description: imudp in rsyslog 4.x before 4.1.2, 3.21 before 3.21.9 beta, and 3.20 before 3.20.2 generates a message even when it is sent by an unauthorized sender, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via 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)