Bug 813079 – rsyslog segfaults attempting to read a malformed / old format spool file

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Bug 813079 - rsyslog segfaults attempting to read a malformed / old format spool file

Summary:	rsyslog segfaults attempting to read a malformed / old format spool file

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	rsyslog (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	6.2
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	unspecified Severity high
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	6.3
Assigned To:	Tomas Heinrich
QA Contact:	Dalibor Pospíšil
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Blocks:	805204
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Reported:	2012-04-16 16:11 EDT by Tomas Heinrich
Modified:	2012-06-20 02:59 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	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 02:59:04 EDT
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malformed spool file (47 bytes, text/plain) 2012-04-16 16:15 EDT, Tomas Heinrich	no flags	Details
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External Trackers
Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2012:0796	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: rsyslog security, bug fix, and enhancement update	2012-06-19 15:29:32 EDT

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Description Tomas Heinrich 2012-04-16 16:11:45 EDT

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 16:15:06 EDT

Created attachment 577828 [details]
malformed spool file

Comment 5 Tomas Heinrich 2012-05-03 13:27:53 EDT

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    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 02:59:04 EDT

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

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