An issue was discovered in Rsyslog v8.1908.0. contrib/pmaixforwardedfrom/pmaixforwardedfrom.c has a heap overflow in the parser for AIX log messages. The parser tries to locate a log message delimiter (in this case, a space or a colon) but fails to account for strings that do not satisfy this constraint. If the string does not match, then the variable lenMsg will reach the value zero and will skip the sanity check that detects invalid log messages. The message will then be considered valid, and the parser will eat up the nonexistent colon delimiter. In doing so, it will decrement lenMsg, a signed integer, whose value was zero and now becomes minus one. The following step in the parser is to shift left the contents of the message. To do this, it will call memmove with the right pointers to the target and destination strings, but the lenMsg will now be interpreted as a huge value, causing a heap overflow.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 9.8
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade rsyslog | Nov 8, 2019 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | — | Upgrade rsyslog-docUpgrade rsyslog-snmpUpgrade rsyslog-pgsqlUpgrade rsyslog-relpUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparseUpgrade rsyslog-udpspoofUpgrade rsyslog-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mmauditUpgrade rsyslog-kafkaUpgrade rsyslog-mmkubernetesUpgrade rsyslog-mmsnmptrapdUpgrade rsyslog-gnutlsUpgrade rsyslog-cryptoUpgrade rsyslog-mmnormalizeUpgrade rsyslog-mysqlUpgrade rsyslog-libdbiUpgrade rsyslog-elasticsearchUpgrade rsyslogUpgrade rsyslog-gssapi | Jul 2, 2020 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade rsyslog-elasticsearchUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparseUpgrade rsyslog-cryptoUpgrade rsyslog-snmpUpgrade rsyslogUpgrade rsyslog-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-docUpgrade rsyslog-pgsql-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-libdbiUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparse-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mmsnmptrapdUpgrade rsyslog-mmaudit-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-debugsourceUpgrade rsyslog-gnutls-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-gssapi-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-relp-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mmauditUpgrade rsyslog-snmp-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mmkubernetesUpgrade rsyslog-gssapiUpgrade rsyslog-kafka-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mmkubernetes-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mmnormalizeUpgrade rsyslog-mmsnmptrapd-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-pgsqlUpgrade rsyslog-elasticsearch-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-kafkaUpgrade rsyslog-mmnormalize-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-crypto-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-relpUpgrade rsyslog-mysqlUpgrade rsyslog-mysql-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-udpspoofUpgrade rsyslog-gnutls | Apr 1, 2020 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade rsyslog | Oct 11, 2019 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp2 | — | Upgrade rsyslog-pgsqlUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparseUpgrade rsyslogUpgrade rsyslog-relpUpgrade rsyslog-mysqlUpgrade rsyslog-gnutlsUpgrade rsyslog-gssapi | Dec 4, 2019 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp3 | — | Upgrade rsyslog-mysqlUpgrade rsyslog-relpUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparseUpgrade rsyslog-gnutlsUpgrade rsyslog-pgsqlUpgrade rsyslogUpgrade rsyslog-gssapi | Dec 18, 2019 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp5 | — | Upgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparseUpgrade rsyslog-relpUpgrade rsyslog-mysqlUpgrade rsyslogUpgrade rsyslog-pgsqlUpgrade rsyslog-gssapiUpgrade rsyslog-gnutls | Nov 19, 2019 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp8 | — | Upgrade rsyslog-relpUpgrade rsyslog-gssapiUpgrade rsyslog-mysqlUpgrade rsyslog-gnutlsUpgrade rsyslogUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparse | Nov 28, 2019 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade system/rsyslog to version 8.2002.0-11.4.24.0.1.75.1 on Solaris 11.4 | Jan 19, 2021 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade rsyslog-udpspoofUpgrade rsyslog-snmpUpgrade rsyslog-relpUpgrade rsyslog-mmnormalizeUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparseUpgrade rsyslog-mmkubernetesUpgrade rsyslog-libdbiUpgrade rsyslog-mysqlUpgrade rsyslogUpgrade rsyslog-elasticsearchUpgrade rsyslog-mmauditUpgrade rsyslog-gssapiUpgrade rsyslog-mmsnmptrapdUpgrade rsyslog-kafkaUpgrade rsyslog-docUpgrade rsyslog-cryptoUpgrade rsyslog-gnutlsUpgrade rsyslog-pgsql | Apr 9, 2020 | Sep 30, 2019 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade rsyslog-mmaudit-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-elasticsearch-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-gssapi-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-docUpgrade rsyslog-cryptoUpgrade rsyslog-mmsnmptrapdUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparse-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-pgsqlUpgrade rsyslogUpgrade rsyslog-kafkaUpgrade rsyslog-elasticsearchUpgrade rsyslog-kafka-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-gnutls-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-libdbiUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparseUpgrade rsyslog-relpUpgrade rsyslog-gnutlsUpgrade rsyslog-mmkubernetes-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mysqlUpgrade rsyslog-crypto-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mmnormalizeUpgrade rsyslog-snmpUpgrade rsyslog-relp-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mysql-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mmauditUpgrade rsyslog-mmkubernetesUpgrade rsyslog-udpspoofUpgrade rsyslog-mmnormalize-debuginfoNo solution existsUpgrade rsyslog-gssapiUpgrade rsyslog-mmsnmptrapd-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-debugsourceUpgrade rsyslog-snmp-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-pgsql-debuginfo | Apr 1, 2020 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade rsyslog-module-mysqlUpgrade rsyslog-module-dbiUpgrade rsyslog-module-mmnormalizeUpgrade rsyslog-module-udpspoofUpgrade rsyslog-module-omtclUpgrade rsyslog-module-gtlsUpgrade rsyslog-module-omamqp1Upgrade rsyslog-module-gcryptUpgrade rsyslog-module-snmpUpgrade rsyslog-diag-toolsUpgrade rsyslog-module-elasticsearchUpgrade rsyslog-docUpgrade rsyslog-module-pgsqlUpgrade rsyslog-module-gssapiUpgrade rsyslog-module-omhttpfsUpgrade rsyslog-module-relpUpgrade rsyslog | Nov 14, 2019 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade rsyslog (Ubuntu Pro) | May 13, 2022 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Jan 20, 2025 | Oct 7, 2019 |
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