CVE-2018-16881

high

Description

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.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00028.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16881

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2439

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2437

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2110

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2501

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-01-25

Updated: 2022-10-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High