The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1000 advisory.

    The rsyslog packages provide an enhanced, multi-threaded syslog daemon. It supports MySQL, syslog/TCP, RFC     3195, permitted sender lists, filtering on any message part, and fine-grained control over output format.

    Security Fix(es):

    * rsyslog: heap-based overflow in contrib/pmaixforwardedfrom/pmaixforwardedfrom.c (CVE-2019-17041)

    * rsyslog: heap-based overflow in contrib/pmcisconames/pmcisconames.c (CVE-2019-17042)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 7 : rsyslog (RHSA-2020:1000)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 135052

Version 1.10