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Debian DSA-3040-1 : rsyslog - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 78026

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the rsyslog packages.

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

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/rsyslog

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3040

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 78026

File Name: debian_DSA-3040.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/2/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rsyslog, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3634

BID: 70187

DSA: 3040