Out-of-Bounds Affecting rsyslog package, versions [,7.6.6)[8.4.0, 8.4.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
16.59% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-RSYSLOG-2369720
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Nov 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-3634  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade rsyslog to version 7.6.6, 8.4.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds rsyslog before 7.6.6 and 8.x before 8.4.1 and sysklogd 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly execute arbitrary code, or have other unspecified impact via a crafted priority (PRI) value that triggers an out-of-bounds array access.

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