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SUSE: CVE-2018-16881: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-16881: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/25/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/01/2019
Modified
06/20/2021

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)

  • suse-upgrade-rsyslog
  • suse-upgrade-rsyslog-diag-tools
  • suse-upgrade-rsyslog-doc
  • suse-upgrade-rsyslog-module-gssapi
  • suse-upgrade-rsyslog-module-gtls
  • suse-upgrade-rsyslog-module-mmnormalize
  • suse-upgrade-rsyslog-module-mysql
  • suse-upgrade-rsyslog-module-pgsql
  • suse-upgrade-rsyslog-module-relp
  • suse-upgrade-rsyslog-module-snmp
  • suse-upgrade-rsyslog-module-udpspoof

References

  • SUSE-SU-2019:0209-1
  • CVE-2018-16881

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