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-elasticsearchUpgrade rsyslog-mysqlUpgrade rsyslog-mmkubernetesUpgrade rsyslog-mmnormalizeUpgrade rsyslog-cryptoUpgrade rsyslog-libdbiUpgrade rsyslog-mmsnmptrapdUpgrade rsyslog-kafkaUpgrade rsyslogUpgrade rsyslog-gnutlsUpgrade rsyslog-gssapiUpgrade rsyslog-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-snmpUpgrade rsyslog-mmauditUpgrade rsyslog-docUpgrade rsyslog-pgsqlUpgrade rsyslog-udpspoofUpgrade rsyslog-relpUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparse | Jul 2, 2020 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparseUpgrade rsyslog-cryptoUpgrade rsyslog-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-docUpgrade rsyslog-gnutls-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslogUpgrade rsyslog-elasticsearchUpgrade rsyslog-libdbiUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparse-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mmaudit-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-snmpUpgrade rsyslog-gssapi-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-pgsql-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-debugsourceUpgrade rsyslog-mmsnmptrapdUpgrade rsyslog-relp-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-gnutlsUpgrade rsyslog-pgsqlUpgrade rsyslog-mmauditUpgrade rsyslog-gssapiUpgrade rsyslog-mmsnmptrapd-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-kafkaUpgrade rsyslog-relpUpgrade rsyslog-mysql-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-elasticsearch-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-snmp-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-udpspoofUpgrade rsyslog-mmkubernetes-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-kafka-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-crypto-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mmnormalizeUpgrade rsyslog-mysqlUpgrade rsyslog-mmnormalize-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mmkubernetes | Apr 1, 2020 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade rsyslog | Oct 11, 2019 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp2 | — | Upgrade rsyslog-gssapiUpgrade rsyslog-mysqlUpgrade rsyslog-relpUpgrade rsyslog-gnutlsUpgrade rsyslog-pgsqlUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparseUpgrade rsyslog | Dec 4, 2019 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp3 | — | Upgrade rsyslog-gssapiUpgrade rsyslogUpgrade rsyslog-pgsqlUpgrade rsyslog-gnutlsUpgrade rsyslog-mysqlUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparseUpgrade rsyslog-relp | Dec 18, 2019 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp5 | — | Upgrade rsyslog-relpUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparseUpgrade rsyslogUpgrade rsyslog-mysqlUpgrade rsyslog-gssapiUpgrade rsyslog-pgsqlUpgrade rsyslog-gnutls | Nov 19, 2019 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp8 | — | Upgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparseUpgrade rsyslog-gnutlsUpgrade rsyslogUpgrade rsyslog-relpUpgrade rsyslog-gssapiUpgrade rsyslog-mysql | 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 rsyslogUpgrade rsyslog-mmauditUpgrade rsyslog-cryptoUpgrade rsyslog-gssapiUpgrade rsyslog-elasticsearchUpgrade rsyslog-kafkaUpgrade rsyslog-docUpgrade rsyslog-mmsnmptrapdUpgrade rsyslog-pgsqlUpgrade rsyslog-gnutlsUpgrade rsyslog-libdbiUpgrade rsyslog-snmpUpgrade rsyslog-relpUpgrade rsyslog-mmnormalizeUpgrade rsyslog-mmkubernetesUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparseUpgrade rsyslog-udpspoofUpgrade rsyslog-mysql | Apr 9, 2020 | Sep 30, 2019 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade rsyslog-mmauditUpgrade rsyslog-relp-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-gnutlsUpgrade rsyslog-mmkubernetes-debuginfoNo solution existsUpgrade rsyslog-debugsourceUpgrade rsyslog-snmpUpgrade rsyslog-mmnormalizeUpgrade rsyslog-mmkubernetesUpgrade rsyslog-mysqlUpgrade rsyslog-gssapiUpgrade rsyslog-mmsnmptrapd-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-crypto-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-udpspoofUpgrade rsyslog-mmnormalize-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mysql-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-relpUpgrade rsyslog-pgsql-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-snmp-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-gssapi-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-libdbiUpgrade rsyslog-docUpgrade rsyslog-elasticsearchUpgrade rsyslog-mmaudit-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-pgsqlUpgrade rsyslog-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-elasticsearch-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mmsnmptrapdUpgrade rsyslogUpgrade rsyslog-kafkaUpgrade rsyslog-cryptoUpgrade rsyslog-gnutls-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparseUpgrade rsyslog-kafka-debuginfoUpgrade rsyslog-mmjsonparse-debuginfo | Apr 1, 2020 | Oct 7, 2019 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade rsyslogUpgrade rsyslog-module-pgsqlUpgrade rsyslog-module-snmpUpgrade rsyslog-module-gssapiUpgrade rsyslog-docUpgrade rsyslog-module-elasticsearchUpgrade rsyslog-module-relpUpgrade rsyslog-diag-toolsUpgrade rsyslog-module-omhttpfsUpgrade rsyslog-module-omtclUpgrade rsyslog-module-gcryptUpgrade rsyslog-module-gtlsUpgrade rsyslog-module-omamqp1Upgrade rsyslog-module-udpspoofUpgrade rsyslog-module-mysqlUpgrade rsyslog-module-dbiUpgrade rsyslog-module-mmnormalize | 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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