CVE-2011-1155

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.

Bugs

• <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680797&gt;

Notes