Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-445
Advisory Release Date: 2014-11-11 10:26 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-11-11 10:34 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A flaw was found in the way rsyslog handled invalid log message priority values. In certain configurations, a local attacker, or a remote attacker able to connect to the rsyslog port, could use this flaw to crash the rsyslog daemon. (CVE-2014-3634)
Affected Packages:
rsyslog
Issue Correction:
Run yum update rsyslog to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
rsyslog-mysql-5.8.10-9.26.amzn1.i686
rsyslog-debuginfo-5.8.10-9.26.amzn1.i686
rsyslog-pgsql-5.8.10-9.26.amzn1.i686
rsyslog-gnutls-5.8.10-9.26.amzn1.i686
rsyslog-gssapi-5.8.10-9.26.amzn1.i686
rsyslog-5.8.10-9.26.amzn1.i686
rsyslog-snmp-5.8.10-9.26.amzn1.i686
src:
rsyslog-5.8.10-9.26.amzn1.src
x86_64:
rsyslog-5.8.10-9.26.amzn1.x86_64
rsyslog-snmp-5.8.10-9.26.amzn1.x86_64
rsyslog-gssapi-5.8.10-9.26.amzn1.x86_64
rsyslog-pgsql-5.8.10-9.26.amzn1.x86_64
rsyslog-mysql-5.8.10-9.26.amzn1.x86_64
rsyslog-debuginfo-5.8.10-9.26.amzn1.x86_64
rsyslog-gnutls-5.8.10-9.26.amzn1.x86_64