USN-5419-1: Rsyslog vulnerabilities

Publication date

12 May 2022

Overview

Rsyslog could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

Releases

16.04 LTS

Packages

It was discovered that Rsyslog improperly handled certain invalid input. An
attacker could use this issue to cause Rsyslog to crash.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
16.04 xenial	rsyslog – 8.16.0-1ubuntu3.1+esm1

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