RHSA-2022:8393 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: logrotate security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 16, 2022

Updated · November 22, 2025

Topic

An update for logrotate is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The logrotate utility simplifies the administration of multiple log files by allowing their automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing.

Security Fix(es):

  • logrotate: potential DoS from unprivileged users via the state file (CVE-2022-1348)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2022:8393 — Red Hat Security Advisory: logrotate security update | PulseLinux