1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3612-1

USN-3612-1: librelp vulnerability

Publication date

28 March 2018

Overview

librelp could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Releases

Packages

  • librelp - Reliable Event Logging Protocol (RELP) library

Details

Bas van Schaik and Kevin Backhouse discovered that librelp incorrectly
handled checking certain x509 certificates. A remote attacker able to
connect to rsyslog could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Bas van Schaik and Kevin Backhouse discovered that librelp incorrectly
handled checking certain x509 certificates. A remote attacker able to
connect to rsyslog could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to restart rsyslog to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
14.04 trusty librelp0 –  1.2.2-2ubuntu1.1

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