Debian DLA-1952-1 : rsyslog security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 129766

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there were two vulnerabilities in the rsyslog system/kernel logging daemon in the parsers for AIX and Cisco log messages respectfully.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these issue have been fixed in rsyslog version 8.4.2-1+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your rsyslog packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 129766

File Name: debian_DLA-1952.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/10/2019

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rsyslog-mongodb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rsyslog-mysql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rsyslog-pgsql, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rsyslog-gssapi, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rsyslog-relp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rsyslog, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rsyslog-gnutls, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rsyslog-elasticsearch

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2019

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