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Medium ALAS2-2019-1369 1 CVE

Moderate: rsyslog security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Nov 19, 2019 · Updated Nov 22, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-16881: 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. 99999: CVE-2018-16881 rsyslog: imptcp: integer overflow when Octet-Counted TCP Framing is enabled

Fixed packages 19

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-crypto 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-debuginfo 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-doc 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-elasticsearch 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-gnutls 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-gssapi 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-kafka 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-libdbi 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-mmaudit 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-mmjsonparse 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-mmkubernetes 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-mmnormalize 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-mmsnmptrapd 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-mysql 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-pgsql 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-relp 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-snmp 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 rsyslog-udpspoof 0:8.24.0-41.amzn2.2.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-16881.html