The writeState function in logrotate.c in logrotate 3.7.9 and earlier...

Vulnerability Description

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.

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/30
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/3
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/28
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/08/5
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43955
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/5
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/31
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0961
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/17
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/6
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/3
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/29
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/6
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• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057845.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/4
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0791
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:065
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/11
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/23/11
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/5
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/18
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056992.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/2
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680797
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0407.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/3
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/7
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/8
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/22
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/5
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/27
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0872
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/32
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/26
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/24
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/4
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/6
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/33