Bug 2538148 (CVE-2026-61548) - CVE-2026-61548 rsyslog: Rsyslog: Denial of Service due to stack buffer overflow in mmpstrucdata plugin
Summary: CVE-2026-61548 rsyslog: Rsyslog: Denial of Service due to stack buffer overfl...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-61548
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2539098
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-09-22 17:17 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-23 07:06 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-22 17:17:44 UTC
Rsyslog is a rocket-fast system for log processing. From 7.5.4 until 8.2606.0, the optional mmpstrucdata plugin's parseSD_PARAM function in plugins/mmpstrucdata/mmpstrucdata.c stores RFC5424 parameter values in a fixed pVal[32 * 1024] stack buffer and calls parsePARAM_VALUE without supplying the destination size. A remote unauthenticated attacker whose crafted RFC5424 message reaches an action using mmpstrucdata can provide a structured-data parameter larger than that buffer when MaxMessageSize permits it, causing an attacker-controlled stack overwrite. Deployments that do not install and use the plugin, or whose effective message-size limit remains below the required threshold, are not affected by this issue. The demonstrated impact is a crash and interruption of log collection; code execution is not demonstrated. This issue is fixed in version 8.2606.0.


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