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RHEL 5 / 6 : rsyslog5 and rsyslog (RHSA-2014:1671)

high Nessus Plugin ID 78595

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated rsyslog5 and rsyslog packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 respectively.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

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

A flaw was found in the way rsyslog handled invalid log message priority values. In certain configurations, a local attacker, or a remote attacker able to connect to the rsyslog port, could use this flaw to crash the rsyslog daemon. (CVE-2014-3634)

Red Hat would like to thank Rainer Gerhards of rsyslog upstream for reporting this issue.

All rsyslog5 and rsyslog users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
After installing the update, the rsyslog service will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1671

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3634

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 78595

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-1671.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/21/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsyslog5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsyslog-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsyslog-snmp, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsyslog-relp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsyslog5-gnutls, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsyslog5-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsyslog5-snmp, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsyslog-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsyslog5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsyslog5-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsyslog-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsyslog, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsyslog-gssapi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsyslog5-gssapi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsyslog-gnutls

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/1/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3634

BID: 70243

RHSA: 2014:1671