CVE-2018-16881

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    CVE-2018-16881

    Published: 25 Jan 2019Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2501, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2110, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2437, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2439, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00028.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16881

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -063f4701e36dbc2ae5ee2dfe980319f28a00c464

    Affected versions

    v8.25.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High