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Gentoo: GLSA-202110-22 Elevated Severity: Logrotate Critical Vulnerability

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-201412-36 outlines issues in APACHE leading to potential data leaks; please ensure updates are applied promptly for safety.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in RSYSLOG, allowing attackers to cause Denial of Service.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in RSYSLOG. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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security advisory denial of service gentoo normal severity rsyslog

Resolution

All RSYSLOG users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/rsyslog-8.4.2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2011-4623 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4623 [ 2 ] CVE-2014-3634 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3634 [ 3 ] CVE-2014-3683 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3683

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201412-35
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

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Severity: Normal
Title: RSYSLOG: Denial of Service
Date: December 24, 2014
Bugs: #395709, #491856, #524058, #524290
ID: 201412-35

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security advisory denial of service gentoo normal severity rsyslog

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in RSYSLOG, allowing attackersto cause Denial of Service.

Background

RSYSLOG is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd with database support and more.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-admin/rsyslog < 8.4.2 >= 8.4.2

Impact

===== A context-dependent attacker may be able to create a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.