Bug 1766641 (CVE-2019-17040) - CVE-2019-17040 rsyslog: out-of-bounds read in contrib/pmdb2diag/pmdb2diag.c
Summary: CVE-2019-17040 rsyslog: out-of-bounds read in contrib/pmdb2diag/pmdb2diag.c
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2019-17040
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1766642
Blocks: 1766703
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Reported: 2019-10-29 14:52 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2019-12-17 03:21 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-11-04 04:28:27 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-10-29 14:52:06 UTC 
contrib/pmdb2diag/pmdb2diag.c in Rsyslog v8.1908.0 allows out-of-bounds access because the level length is mishandled.

Reference:
https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/3875
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-10-29 14:52:21 UTC 
Created rsyslog tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1766642]
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2019-11-04 04:15:10 UTC 
Upstream commit: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/3875/commits/b0894088b680666035a3418326e13bc99d4fed49
Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2019-11-04 04:28:27 UTC 
This flaw affects the pmdb2diag.c code file which was introduced in rsyslog-8.1903.0 which was released on 2019-03-05. Older versions of rsyslog are not affected by this flaw.
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