Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Rsyslog affect IBM Spectrum Protect Plus (CVE-2019-17041, CVE-2019-17042)

Summary

Rsyslog is vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflows which may affect IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-17041
**DESCRIPTION:**Rsyslog is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the contrib/pmaixforwardedfrom/pmaixforwardedfrom.c. By sending a specially-crafted message, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/168504 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2019-17042
**DESCRIPTION:**Rsyslog is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the contrib/pmcisconames/pmcisconames.c. By sending a specially-crafted message, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/168503 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

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Workarounds and Mitigations

None