Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-5110

Title: Oneidentity Syslog-Ng

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-5110.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Nov 17, 2008
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.20%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-5110: syslog-ng does not call chdir when it calls chroot, which might allow attackers to escape the intended jail. NOTE: this is only a vulnerability when a separate vulnerability is present. This flaw affects syslog-ng versions prior to and including 2.0.9.

Impacted Vendors

B
balabit 1
O
oneidentity 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505791 http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02286083 http://secunia.com/advisories/35748 http://secunia.com/advisories/40551 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-10.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/17/3 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1796 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505791 http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02286083 http://secunia.com/advisories/35748 http://secunia.com/advisories/40551 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-10.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/17/3 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1796
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
9.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-5110 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.