Bug 2539098 - CVE-2026-61548 rsyslog: Rsyslog: Denial of Service due to stack buffer overflow in mmpstrucdata plugin [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-61548 rsyslog: Rsyslog: Denial of Service due to stack buffer overfl...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rsyslog
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Attila Lakatos
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["2b1a062f-ea29-4459-a2ee-6...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-61548
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Reported: 2026-09-23 07:06 UTC by Vladimir Vasilev
Modified: 2026-09-23 07:06 UTC (History)
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Description Vladimir Vasilev 2026-09-23 07:06:48 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

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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