[SECURITY] [DSA 3047-1] rsyslog security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-3047-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Luciano Bello
October 08, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : rsyslog
CVE ID : CVE-2014-3683

Mancha discovered a vulnerability in rsyslog, a system for log
processing. This vulnerability is an integer overflow that can be
triggered by malformed messages to a server, if this one accepts data
from untrusted sources, provoking message loss.

This vulnerability can be seen as an incomplete fix of CVE-2014-3634
(DSA 3040-1).

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.8.11-3+deb7u2.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.4.2-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.4.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rsyslog packages.

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