CVE-2014-3634

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-11-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

rsyslog before 7.6.6 and 8.x before 8.4.1 and sysklogd 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly execute arbitrary code, or have other unspecified impact via a crafted priority (PRI) value that triggers an out-of-bounds array access.

Affected products

rsyslog: through 7.6.5; 8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.1.4, 8.1.5 (+12)
Sysklogd Project Sysklogd: through 1.5; 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0411.html
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1654
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00021.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1397.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1654.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1671.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61494
http://secunia.com/advisories/61720
http://secunia.com/advisories/61930
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3040

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