An issue was discovered in Rsyslog v8.1908.0. contrib/pmaixforwardedfrom/pmaixforwardedfrom.c has a heap overflow in the parser for AIX log messages. The parser tries to locate a log message delimiter (in this case, a space or a colon) but fails to account for strings that do not satisfy this constraint. If the string does not match, then the variable lenMsg will reach the value zero and will skip the sanity check that detects invalid log messages. The message will then be considered valid, and the parser will eat up the nonexistent colon delimiter. In doing so, it will decrement lenMsg, a signed integer, whose value was zero and now becomes minus one. The following step in the parser is to shift left the contents of the message. To do this, it will call memmove with the right pointers to the target and destination strings, but the lenMsg will now be interpreted as a huge value, causing a heap overflow.
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| Product Name | Status | Defect | Fixed | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | ||||
| Wind River Linux LTS 17 | Fixed |
LIN10-6561 |
10.17.41.20 | -- |
| Wind River Linux 8 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux 9 | Fixed |
LIN9-9176 |
9.0.0.24 | -- |
| Wind River Linux 7 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 21 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 22 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 18 | Fixed |
LIN1018-5087 |
10.18.44.11 | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 19 | Fixed |
LIN1019-2918 |
10.19.45.1 | -- |
| Wind River Linux CD release | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux 6 | Requires LTSS | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 23 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| VxWorks | ||||
| VxWorks 7 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| VxWorks 6.9 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition | ||||
| Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
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