National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3200

Overview

Stack-based buffer overflow in the parseLegacySyslogMsg function in tools/syslogd.c in rsyslogd in rsyslog 4.6.x before 4.6.8 and 5.2.0 through 5.8.4 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application exit) via a long TAG in a legacy syslog message.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727644

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727644

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.rsyslog.com/potential-dos-with-malformed-tag/

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.rsyslog.com/potential-dos-with-malformed-tag/

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.adiscon.com/?p=rsyslog.git;a=commit;h=1ca6cc236d1dabf1633238b873fb1c057e52f95e

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://git.adiscon.com/?p=rsyslog.git;a=commit;h=1ca6cc236d1dabf1633238b873fb1c057e52f95e

External Source: BID

Name: 49413

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49413

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:1247

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1247.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2011:134

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:134

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1026000

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1026000

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 46027

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/46027

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45922

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45922

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2011:1020

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-09/msg00013.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-12282

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065941.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-12250

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065837.html