CVE-2008-5618
EPSS 0.47%
Description
imudp in rsyslog 4.x before 4.1.2, 3.21 before 3.21.9 beta, and 3.20 before 3.20.2 generates a message even when it is sent by an unauthorized sender, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via a large number of spurious messages.
How to fix CVE-2008-5618
To remediate CVE-2008-5618, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/rsyslog—upgrade to 3.18.6-1 or later
Is CVE-2008-5618 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 3.18.6-1