8.4.1

rsyslog 8.4.1 (v8-stable) released

We have just released 8.4.1 of the v8-stable branch.

This is primarily a bug-fixing release, but provides one small enhancement, the so-called “bracketing mode” of impstats. It tells impstats to emit begin and end message before and after emitting stats.

Please note that this releases also fixes a potential remote DoS, which may happen for some (non-default) configurations. As such, users are highly encouraged to upgrade to this version.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-4-1-v8-stable/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/downloads/download-v8-stable/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

Changelog for 8.4.1 (v8-stable)

Version 8.4.1 [v8-stable] 2014-09-30

  • imudp: add for bracketing mode, which makes parsing stats easier
  • permit at-sign in variable names
    closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/110
  • bugfix: fix syntax error in anon_cc_numbers.py script
    Thanks to github user anthcourtney for the patch.
    closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/109
  • bugfix: ompgsql: don’t loose uncomitted data on retry
    Thanks to Jared Johnson and Axel Rau for the patch.
  • bugfix: imfile: if a state file for a different file name was set, that different file (name) was monitored instead of the configured one. Now, the state file is deleted and the correct file monitored.
    closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/103
  • bugfix: omudpspoof: source port was invalid
    Thanks to Pavel Levshin for the patch
  • bugfix: build failure on systems which don’t have json_tokener_errors
    Older versions of json-c need to use a different API (which don’t exists on newer versions, unfortunately…)
    Thanks to Thomas D. for reporting this problem.
  • bugfix: omelasticsearch does not work with broken/changed ES 1.0+ API
    closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/104
  • bugfix: mmanon did not properly anonymize IP addresses starting with ‘9’
    Thanks to defa-at-so36.net for reporting this problem.
    closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529
  • bugfix: build problems on SuSe Linux
    Thanks Andreas Stieger for the patch
  • bugfix: omelasticsearch error file did not work correctly on ES 1.0+ due to a breaking change in the ElasticSearch API.
    see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/104
  • bugfix: potential abort when a message with PRI > 191 was processed if the “pri-text” property was used in active templates, this could be abused to a remote denial of service from permitted senders
    see also: CVE-2014-3634
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