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rsyslog — security advisory
Integer overflow in rsyslog before 7.6.7 and 8.x before 8.4.2 and sysklogd 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large priority (PRI) value. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3634.
- Products
- rsyslog
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 8.4.2-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2014-3683
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 21:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Integer overflow in rsyslog before 7.6.7 and 8.x before 8.4.2 and sysklogd 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large priority (PRI) value. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3634.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3683
rsyslog
Fixed versions: 8.4.2-1
rsyslog
Fixed versions: 8.4.2-1
rsyslog
Fixed versions: 8.4.2-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T15:47:39.002116903Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 414476,
"published_at": "2014-11-02T00:55:05.987+00:00"
}