RHSA-2020:1702 — Security Advisory

An update for rsyslog is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The rsyslog packages provide an enhanced, multi-threaded syslog daemon. It supports MySQL, syslog/TCP, RFC 3195, permitted sender lists, filtering on any message part, and fine-grained control over output format.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rsyslog (8.1911.0). (BZ#1740683)

Security Fix(es):

• rsyslog: heap-based overflow in contrib/pmaixforwardedfrom/pmaixforwardedfrom.c (CVE-2019-17041)

• rsyslog: heap-based overflow in contrib/pmcisconames/pmcisconames.c (CVE-2019-17042)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.