CVE-2019-17041

CVSS V2 High 7.5 CVSS V3 Critical 9.8
Description
An issue was discovered in Rsyslog v8.1908.0. contrib/pmaixforwardedfrom/pmaixforwardedfrom.c has a heap overflow in the parser for AIX log messages. The parser tries to locate a log message delimiter (in this case, a space or a colon) but fails to account for strings that do not satisfy this constraint. If the string does not match, then the variable lenMsg will reach the value zero and will skip the sanity check that detects invalid log messages. The message will then be considered valid, and the parser will eat up the nonexistent colon delimiter. In doing so, it will decrement lenMsg, a signed integer, whose value was zero and now becomes minus one. The following step in the parser is to shift left the contents of the message. To do this, it will call memmove with the right pointers to the target and destination strings, but the lenMsg will now be interpreted as a huge value, causing a heap overflow.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2019-17041
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2019-10-07T16:15:11
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-12-06T18:19:32
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:8.1908.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 9.8
  • Base Severity
  • CRITICAL
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 06:42:55 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 03:52:37 2019-10-07T16:15Z 2019-10-07T16:15:11 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 03:52:37 2021-12-06T18:19:32 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 03:52:37 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated