Vulnerability CVE-2018-16881
Published: 2019-01-25

Description:
A denial of service vulnerability was found in rsyslog in the imptcp module. An attacker could send a specially crafted message to the imptcp socket, which would cause rsyslog to crash. Versions before 8.27.0 are vulnerable.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Rsyslog -> Rsyslog 

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2110
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2437
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2439
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16881
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