7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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, denial of service and, potentially, remote code execution.
This vulnerability can be seen as an incomplete fix of CVE-2014-3634
(DSA 3040-1).
For more information: <http://www.rsyslog.com/remote-syslog-pri-vulnerability-cve-2014-3683/>
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.
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
---|---|---|---|
rsyslog | eq | 5.8.11-3+deb7u1 | |
rsyslog | eq | 5.8.11-3 |