CVE-2026-61548 PUBLISHED

Rsyslog: mmpstrucdata stack buffer overflow with oversized RFC5424 structured data

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 10.07.2026 Published: 18.09.2026 Updated: 18.09.2026

Rsyslog is a rocket-fast system for log processing. From 7.5.4 until 8.2606.0, the optional mmpstrucdata plugin's parseSD_PARAM function in plugins/mmpstrucdata/mmpstrucdata.c stores RFC5424 parameter values in a fixed pVal[32 * 1024] stack buffer and calls parsePARAM_VALUE without supplying the destination size. A remote unauthenticated attacker whose crafted RFC5424 message reaches an action using mmpstrucdata can provide a structured-data parameter larger than that buffer when MaxMessageSize permits it, causing an attacker-controlled stack overwrite. Deployments that do not install and use the plugin, or whose effective message-size limit remains below the required threshold, are not affected by this issue. The demonstrated impact is a crash and interruption of log collection; code execution is not demonstrated. This issue is fixed in version 8.2606.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.1

Product Status

Vendor rsyslog
Product rsyslog
Versions
  • Version >= 7.5.4, < 8.2606.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow CWE