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High · 8.2 CVE-2026-55556 EUVD-2026-83184

Rsyslog: Heap buffer overflow in imhttp plugin Basic Authentication handling

Published Sep 18, 2026 · Updated Sep 22, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Rsyslog is a rocket-fast system for log processing. From 8.2110.0 until 8.2604.0, the optional imhttp module's parse_auth_header function in contrib/imhttp/imhttp.c allocates a zero-byte heap buffer with calloc(0, len) when an HTTP Basic Authorization value exceeds its fixed work buffer, then passes that pointer to apr_base64_decode. An unauthenticated remote attacker can send an oversized encoded credential to an imhttp endpoint configured for Basic Authentication, causing decoded data to overwrite adjacent heap memory before credential validation. Deployments that do not install, load, and use imhttp with Basic Authentication are not affected. The demonstrated impact is a process crash that interrupts log collection, and code execution has not been demonstrated. This issue is fixed in version 8.2604.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rsyslog rsyslog >= 8.2110.0, < 8.2604.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 rsyslog 8.2604.0-1 —
Debian 13 rsyslog No fix yet —
Debian 12 rsyslog No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 rsyslog 8.2608.0-r0 —

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 rsyslog No fix yet —

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