MGASA-2014-0411

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    MGASA-2014-0411

    Published: 9 Oct 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-3634

    Summary: Updated rsyslog packages fix CVE-2014-3634

    Details: Updated rsyslog packages fix security vulnerability: Rainer Gerhards, the rsyslog project leader, reported a vulnerability in Rsyslog. 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 (CVE-2014-3634).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0411.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14206, http://www.rsyslog.com/remote-syslog-pri-vulnerability/, http://www.rsyslog.com/remote-syslog-pri-vulnerability-cve-2014-3683/, https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3040

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: rsyslog

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/rsyslog?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.10.1-2.2.mga3

    Affected versions

    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