DSA-3040-1 rsyslog -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3040-1 rsyslog -- security update

Date Reported:

30 Sep 2014

Affected Packages:

rsyslog

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-3634.

More information:

Rainer Gerhards, the rsyslog project leader, reported a vulnerability in Rsyslog, a system for log processing. As a consequence of this vulnerability an attacker can send malformed messages to a server, if this one accepts data from untrusted sources, and trigger a denial of service attack.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 5.8.11-3+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 8.4.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rsyslog packages.