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Red Hat: CVE-2018-16881: Moderate: rsyslog security and bug fix update (RHSA-2019:2110)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-16881: Moderate: rsyslog security and bug fix update (RHSA-2019:2110)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/25/2019
Created
08/08/2019
Added
08/07/2019
Modified
03/03/2021

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)

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

References

  • CVE-2018-16881
  • RHBA-2019:2501
  • RHSA-2019:2110
  • RHSA-2019:2437
  • RHSA-2019:2439

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