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CVE-2014-3634

high
Published 2014-11-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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VIR risk
7.5

Description

rsyslog before 7.6.6 and 8.x before 8.4.1 and sysklogd 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly execute arbitrary code, or have other unspecified impact via a crafted priority (PRI) value that triggers an out-of-bounds array access.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2:1.9.2.39.3a460-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2:1.9.2.39.3a460-1
debian debianforkyfixed2:1.9.2.39.3a460-1
debian debiansidfixed2:1.9.2.39.3a460-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2:1.9.2.39.3a460-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
sysklogd_projectsysklogd{"endIncluding":"1.5"}
sysklogd_projectsysklogd1.1
sysklogd_projectsysklogd1.2
sysklogd_projectsysklogd1.3
sysklogd_projectsysklogd1.4
sysklogd_projectsysklogd1.4.1
rsyslogrsyslog{"endIncluding":"7.6.5"}
rsyslogrsyslog8.1.0
rsyslogrsyslog8.1.1
rsyslogrsyslog8.1.2
rsyslogrsyslog8.1.3
rsyslogrsyslog8.1.4
rsyslogrsyslog8.1.5
rsyslogrsyslog8.1.6
rsyslogrsyslog8.2.0
rsyslogrsyslog8.2.1
rsyslogrsyslog8.2.2
rsyslogrsyslog8.2.3
rsyslogrsyslog8.3.0
rsyslogrsyslog8.3.1
rsyslogrsyslog8.3.2
rsyslogrsyslog8.3.3
rsyslogrsyslog8.3.4
rsyslogrsyslog8.3.5
rsyslogrsyslog8.4.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.