Bug 813079

Summary: rsyslog segfaults attempting to read a malformed / old format spool file
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Tomas Heinrich <theinric>
Component: rsyslogAssignee: Tomas Heinrich <theinric>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Dalibor Pospíšil <dapospis>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.2CC: azelinka, dapospis, jrieden, pvrabec
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: 6.3   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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When the daemon was supplied with malformed spool files, the related data were incorrectly deinitialized. Because of the handling of the data, the daemon sometimes aborted. The code was modified to properly deinitialize the data. The daemon doesn't abort.
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Last Closed: 2012-06-20 06:59:04 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Tomas Heinrich 2012-04-16 20:11:45 UTC 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rsyslog 5.8.7 and older.

Steps to Reproduce:
/tmp/rsyslog.conf:
  $workdirectory /tmp
  $actionqueuetype disk
  $actionqueuefilename malformed-qfile
  *.* /tmp/all.log
Put the attached 'malformed-qfile.qi' into /tmp.
Run
$ /sbin/rsyslogd -c 5 -dnf /tmp/rsyslog.conf

<...>
Aborted (core dumped)

Additional info:
Will be fixed by a rebase to upstream version 5.8.10.
Comment 1 Tomas Heinrich 2012-04-16 20:15:06 UTC 
Created attachment 577828 [details]
malformed spool file
Comment 5 Tomas Heinrich 2012-05-03 17:27:53 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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    New Contents:
When the daemon was supplied with malformed spool files, the related data were incorrectly deinitialized.
Because of the handling of the data, the daemon sometimes aborted.
The code was modified to properly deinitialize the data.
The daemon doesn't abort.
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-20 06:59:04 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0796.html