rsyslog: remote syslog PRI vulnerability

A flaw was found in the way rsyslog handled invalid log message priority values. In certain configurations, a local attacker, or a remote attacker able to connect to the rsyslog port, could use this flaw to crash the rsyslog daemon or, potentially in rsyslog 7.x, execute arbitrary code as the use...

USN-2381-1 rsyslog vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Rsyslog incorrectly handled invalid PRI values. An attacker could use this issue to send malformed messages to the Rsyslog server and cause it to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service and possibly message loss. CVE-2014-3634, CVE-2014-3683...