PT-2026-82553
CVE-2026-78002
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Published
2026-08-27
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Updated
2026-10-21
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.5
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
rsyslog (affected versions not specified)
Description
An unauthenticated remote attacker can cause a denial of service (DoS) by triggering a heap buffer overflow. This occurs when the RainerScript
replace() function incorrectly calculates the buffer size during string replacement while processing specially crafted syslog messages, resulting in memory corruption.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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