CVE-2011-0343
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.9EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (32th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-0369)
- Published
- January 28, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-0369 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- freebsd / freebsd
- hp / hp-ux
- oneidentity / syslog-ng
- oneidentity / syslog-ng
- oneidentity / syslog-ng
- oneidentity / syslog-ng
- oneidentity / syslog-ng
- oneidentity / syslog-ng
- oneidentity / syslog-ng
- oneidentity / syslog-ng
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608491(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515955/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45988(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000101.html(Vendor Advisory)
- https://lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000102.html(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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