Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package librelp (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-LIBRELP-652831
published23 Mar 2018
disclosed23 Mar 2018

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Introduced: 23 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-1000140 (opens in a new tab) CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream librelp package and not the librelp package as distributed by Ubuntu.

rsyslog librelp version 1.2.14 and earlier contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the checking of x509 certificates from a peer that can result in Remote code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable a remote attacker that can connect to rsyslog and trigger a stack buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted x509 certificate.