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CVE-2011-4623

Published: Sep 25, 2012

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

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Description

Integer overflow in the rsCStrExtendBuf function in runtime/stringbuf.c in the imfile module in rsyslog 4.x before 4.6.6, 5.x before 5.7.4, and 6.x before 6.1.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon hang) via a large file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=221

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vendor-advisory

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http://rsyslog.com/changelog-for-6-1-4-devel/

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769822

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http://git.adiscon.com/?p=rsyslog.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6bad782f154b7f838c7371bf99c13f6dc4ec4101

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vdb-entry

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http://rsyslog.com/changelog-for-5-7-4-v5-beta/

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third-party-advisory

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vdb-entry

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third-party-advisory

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http://rsyslog.com/changelog-for-4-6-6-v4-stable/

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[oss-security] 20111222 Re: CVE Request -- rsyslog -- DoS due integer signedness error while extending rsyslog counted string buffer

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