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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2019-17040

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CVE-2019-17040

rsyslog: out-of-bounds read in contrib/pmdb2diag/pmdb2diag.c

Published Modified CWE 125
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Photon OS. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium).

Description

contrib/pmdb2diag/pmdb2diag.c in Rsyslog v8.1908.0 allows out-of-bounds access because the level length is mishandled.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 1.0rsyslog8.1910.0-2.ph1
Photon OS 2.0rsyslog8.1907.0-1.ph2
Photon OS 3.0rsyslog8.1907.0-2.ph3
alpine 3.11rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.12rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.13rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.14rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.15rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.16rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.17rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.18rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.19rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
Show all 23 entries from 23 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 1.0rsyslog8.1910.0-2.ph1
Photon OS 2.0rsyslog8.1907.0-1.ph2
Photon OS 3.0rsyslog8.1907.0-2.ph3
alpine 3.11rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.12rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.13rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.14rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.15rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.16rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.17rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.18rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.19rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.20rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.21rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.22rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.23rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine 3.24rsyslog8.1908.0-r1
alpine edgersyslog8.1908.0-r1
debian 11rsyslog8.1910.0-1
debian 12rsyslog8.1910.0-1
debian 13rsyslog8.1910.0-1
debian 14rsyslog8.1910.0-1
echorsyslog8.1910.0-1

References

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