CVE-2013-4758

medium
Published 2013-10-04 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Double free vulnerability in the writeDataError function in the ElasticSearch plugin (omelasticsearch) in rsyslog before 7.4.2 and before 7.5.2 devel, when errorfile is set to local logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted JSON response.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0
sid Fixed 0
forky Fixed 0
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
rsyslogrsyslog{"endIncluding":"7.4.1"}
rsyslogrsyslog6.4.2
rsyslogrsyslog6.5.1
rsyslogrsyslog6.6.0
rsyslogrsyslog7.1.0
rsyslogrsyslog7.1.1
rsyslogrsyslog7.1.2
rsyslogrsyslog7.1.3
rsyslogrsyslog7.1.4
rsyslogrsyslog7.1.5
rsyslogrsyslog7.1.6
rsyslogrsyslog7.1.7
rsyslogrsyslog7.1.8
rsyslogrsyslog7.1.9
rsyslogrsyslog7.1.10
rsyslogrsyslog7.1.11
rsyslogrsyslog7.1.12
rsyslogrsyslog7.2.1
rsyslogrsyslog7.2.2
rsyslogrsyslog7.2.3
rsyslogrsyslog7.2.4
rsyslogrsyslog7.2.5
rsyslogrsyslog7.2.6
rsyslogrsyslog7.2.7
rsyslogrsyslog7.3.0
rsyslogrsyslog7.3.1
rsyslogrsyslog7.3.3
rsyslogrsyslog7.3.4
rsyslogrsyslog7.3.5
rsyslogrsyslog7.3.6
rsyslogrsyslog7.3.7
rsyslogrsyslog7.3.8
rsyslogrsyslog7.3.9
rsyslogrsyslog7.3.10
rsyslogrsyslog7.3.11
rsyslogrsyslog7.3.12
rsyslogrsyslog7.3.13
rsyslogrsyslog7.3.14
rsyslogrsyslog7.3.15
rsyslogrsyslog7.4.0
rsyslogrsyslog7.5.0

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.