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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16881

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,...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 rsyslog

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.27.0-2"}]}]

Debian:13 rsyslog

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.27.0-2"}]}]

Debian:14 rsyslog

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.27.0-2"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org