Bug 1371490

Summary:	rsyslog: Injecting terminal escape sequences into log
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	abhgupta, dkholia, dmcphers, jialiu, jlieskov, jokerman, jvymazal, kseifried, lkundrak, lmeyer, mah.darade, mhaicman, mmccomas, pvrabec, slawomir, tiwillia
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Bug Blocks:	1371492

Description Adam Mariš 2016-08-30 10:26:26 UTC

It was found syslog doesn't properly validate log input allowing to inject terminal escape sequences into log files.

Bug report:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836003

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-08-30 10:26:58 UTC

Created rsyslog tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1371491]

Comment 3 Jiří Vymazal 2016-12-19 14:23:27 UTC

blocking issue closed, fixed in new version of rsyslog, already present in rawhide, link to upstream bug: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1138 

closing