Bug 2538463 (CVE-2026-55556) - CVE-2026-55556 rsyslog: Rsyslog: Denial of Service via heap buffer overflow in imhttp module
Summary: CVE-2026-55556 rsyslog: Rsyslog: Denial of Service via heap buffer overflow i...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-55556
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-22 18:36 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-23 07:04 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-22 18:36:34 UTC
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.


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