VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-3634

high
Published 2014-11-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

rsyslog before 7.6.6 and 8.x before 8.4.1 and sysklogd 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly execute arbitrary code, or have other unspecified impact via a crafted priority (PRI) value that triggers an out-of-bounds array access.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2:1.9.2.39.3a460-1
sid Fixed 2:1.9.2.39.3a460-1
forky Fixed 2:1.9.2.39.3a460-1
bullseye Fixed 2:1.9.2.39.3a460-1
bookworm Fixed 2:1.9.2.39.3a460-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
sysklogd_projectsysklogd{"endIncluding":"1.5"}
sysklogd_projectsysklogd1.1
sysklogd_projectsysklogd1.2
sysklogd_projectsysklogd1.3
sysklogd_projectsysklogd1.4
sysklogd_projectsysklogd1.4.1
rsyslogrsyslog{"endIncluding":"7.6.5"}
rsyslogrsyslog8.1.0
rsyslogrsyslog8.1.1
rsyslogrsyslog8.1.2
rsyslogrsyslog8.1.3
rsyslogrsyslog8.1.4
rsyslogrsyslog8.1.5
rsyslogrsyslog8.1.6
rsyslogrsyslog8.2.0
rsyslogrsyslog8.2.1
rsyslogrsyslog8.2.2
rsyslogrsyslog8.2.3
rsyslogrsyslog8.3.0
rsyslogrsyslog8.3.1
rsyslogrsyslog8.3.2
rsyslogrsyslog8.3.3
rsyslogrsyslog8.3.4
rsyslogrsyslog8.3.5
rsyslogrsyslog8.4.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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