CVE-2011-1951 (GCVE-0-2011-1951)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-07-11 20:00
Modified
2024-08-06 22:46
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
lib/logmatcher.c in Balabit syslog-ng before 3.2.4, when the global flag is set and when using PCRE 8.12 and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a message that does not match a regular expression.
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