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CVE-2008-5618

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2008-12-17 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Rsyslog Rsyslog

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References