CVE-2019-17041: debian debian_linux Out-of-bounds Write

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2019-17041 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in debian debian_linux. EPSS estimates a 4.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 07-10-2019
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

• CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteThe product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.