CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2011-0343

MEDIUM
6.9
CVSS v2
NVD

Description

Balabit syslog-ng 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 OSE and PE, when running on FreeBSD or HP-UX, does not properly perform cast operations, which causes syslog-ng to use a default value of -1 to create log files with insecure permissions (07777), which allows local users to read and write to these log files.

How to fix

Remediation Available
syslog-ngDebian
Fixed in:3.1.3-2CVE-2011-0343
Fixed in:3.1.3-2CVE-2011-0343
Fixed in:3.1.3-2CVE-2011-0343
Fixed in:3.1.3-2CVE-2011-0343

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

0.38%probability of exploitation in 30 days
30thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 30% of all known CVEs.

References

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