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Moderate Vulnerability in Mageia 6 Rsyslog Causes Denial of Service

mageia
Calendar Grey September 27, 2018
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2018-0392 - Updated rsyslog packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 27 Sep 2018
A buffer overflow was found in the SanitizeMsg() function of rsyslogd (in runtime/parser.c) which may cause a denial of service or other consequences References:

Summary

A buffer overflow was found in the SanitizeMsg() function of rsyslogd (in runtime/parser.c) which may cause a denial of service or other consequences References:

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23439

- https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/20f8237870eb5e971fa068e4dd4d296f1dbef329

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update buffer overflow rsyslog Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 6/core/rsyslog-8.16.0-1.1.mga6

Publication date: 27 Sep 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0392.html
Type: security

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update buffer overflow rsyslog Mageia

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