Vulnerability in Rsyslog

CVE-2008-5618

imudp in rsyslog 4.x before 4.1.2, 3.21 before 3.21.9 beta, and 3.20 before 3.20.2 generates a message even when it is sent by an unauthorized sender, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via a large number of spurious messages.

EPSS: 0.012 (64.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Rsyslog — versions 3.12.1, 3.20.0, 4.1.0
  • N/a — versions n/a

References