CVE-2018-16881

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16881
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16881.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16881
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-01-25T18:29:00.257Z
Modified
2026-05-28T04:04:18.941042950Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
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                }
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            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_big_endian:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
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            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
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                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
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                }
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            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_scientific_computing:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
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            "source": "CPE_STRING"
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                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
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            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server",
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        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation",
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:virtualization:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:virtualization",
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:virtualization_host:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:virtualization_host",
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.3"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
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            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:virtualization_manager",
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
063f4701e36dbc2ae5ee2dfe980319f28a00c464
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "8.27.0"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

v7.*
v7.5.1
v7.5.2
v7.5.3
v8.*
v8.1.6
v8.10.0
v8.12.0
v8.13.0
v8.18.0
v8.19.0
v8.20.0
v8.21.0
v8.22.0
v8.23.0
v8.24.0
v8.25.0
v8.26.0
v8.3.0
v8.3.1
v8.3.2
v8.3.3
v8.3.4
v8.3.5
v8.4.0
v8.4.1
v8.4.2
v8.9.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16881.json"