A memory leak in rsyslog before 5.7.6 was found in the way deamon processed log messages are logged when $RepeatedMsgReduction was enabled. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of the rsyslogd daemon service by crashing the service via a sequence of repeated log messages sent within short periods of time.
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{
"product": "rsyslog",
"vendor": "rsyslog",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "before 5.7.6"
}
]
}
]