6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.155 Low
EPSS
Percentile
95.9%
Stack-based buffer overflow in the parseLegacySyslogMsg function in tools/syslogd.c in rsyslogd in rsyslog 4.6.x before 4.6.8 and 5.2.0 through 5.8.4 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application exit) via a long TAG in a legacy syslog message.
git.adiscon.com/?p=rsyslog.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1ca6cc236d1dabf1633238b873fb1c057e52f95e
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065837.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065941.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-09/msg00013.html
secunia.com/advisories/45922
secunia.com/advisories/46027
securitytracker.com/id?1026000
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:134
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1247.html
www.rsyslog.com/potential-dos-with-malformed-tag/
www.securityfocus.com/bid/49413
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727644