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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-16881: Security patch for rsyslog (ALAS-2019-1369)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-16881: Security patch for rsyslog (ALAS-2019-1369)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/25/2019
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

A denial of service vulnerability was found in rsyslog in the imptcp module. An attacker could send a specially crafted message to the imptcp socket, which would cause rsyslog to crash. Versions before 8.27.0 are vulnerable.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-crypto
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-doc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-elasticsearch
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-gnutls
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-gssapi
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-kafka
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-libdbi
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-mmaudit
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-mmjsonparse
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-mmkubernetes
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-mmnormalize
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-mmsnmptrapd
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-mysql
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-pgsql
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-relp
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-snmp
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rsyslog-udpspoof

References

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