PT-2019-14920 · Rsyslog · Rsyslog

Abergmann · Published 2019-09-30 · Updated 2019-10-07 · CVE-2019-17040

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Rsyslog version 8.1908.0

Description The issue is related to out-of-bounds access in the contrib/pmdb2diag/pmdb2diag.c file due to mishandling of the level length.

Recommendations For Rsyslog version 8.1908.0, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-17040

Affected Products

Rsyslog

References · 10

• https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/3875 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-17040 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-17040 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17040 · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KPNCHI7X2IEXRH6RYD6IDPR4PLB5RPC7 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-17040 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2019-17040 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W6SUQE25RD37CD24BHKUWMG27U5RQ2FU · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/blob/v8-stable/ChangeLog · Note
• https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-17040 · Note