Changelog

Changelog for 6.3.5 (v6-devel)

Version 6.3.5 [DEVEL] (rgerhards/al), 2011-09-01

bugfix/security: off-by-two bug in legacy syslog parser, CVE-2011-3200
bugfix: mark message processing did not work correctly
imudp&imtcp now report error if no listener at all was defined
Thanks to Marcin for suggesting this error message.
bugfix: potential misadressing in property replacer

Version 6.1.12 [BETA], 2011-09-01

bugfix/security: off-by-two bug in legacy syslog parser, CVE-2011-3200
bugfix: mark message processing did not work correctly
bugfix: potential misadressing in property replacer
bugfix: memcpy overflow can occur in allowed sender checkig if a name is resolved to IPv4-mapped-on-IPv6 address
Found by Ismail Dönmez at suse
bugfix: The NUL-Byte for the syslogtag was not copied in MsgDup (msg.c)
bugfix: fixed incorrect state handling for Discard Action (transactions)
Note: This caused all messages in a batch to be set to COMMITTED even if they were discarded.

Version 5.9.3 [V5-DEVEL], 2011-09-01

bugfix/security: off-by-two bug in legacy syslog parser, CVE-2011-3200
bugfix: mark message processing did not work correctly
added capability to emit config error location info for warnings otherwise, omusrmsg’s warning about new config format was not accompanied by problem location.
bugfix: potential misadressing in property replacer
bugfix: MSGID corruption in RFC5424 parser under some circumstances
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=275
bugfix: The NUL-Byte for the syslogtag was not copied in MsgDup (msg.c)

Version 4.7.5 [v4-beta], 2011-09-01

Version 5.8.5 [V5-stable] (rgerhards/al), 2011-09-01

bugfix: security: off-by-two bug in legacy syslog parser, CVE-2011-3200
bugfix: mark message processing did not work correctly
bugfix: potential hang condition during tag emulation
bugfix: too-early string termination during tag emulation
bugfix: The NUL-Byte for the syslogtag was not copied in MsgDup (msg.c)
bugfix: fixed incorrect state handling for Discard Action (transactions)
Note: This caused all messages in a batch to be set to COMMITTED, even if they were discarded.

Version 4.6.8 [v4-stable] (rgerhards), 2011-09-01

bugfix/security: off-by-two bug in legacy syslog parser, CVE-2011-3200
bugfix: potential misadressing in property replacer
bugfix: memcpy overflow can occur in allowed sender checking if a name is resolved to IPv4-mapped-on-IPv6 address
Found by Ismail Dönmez at suse
bugfix: The NUL-Byte for the syslogtag was not copied in MsgDup (msg.c)

Version 5.8.4 [V5-stable] (al), 2011-08-10

bugfix: potential misadressing in property replacer
bugfix: memcpy overflow can occur in allowed sender checking if a name is resolved to IPv4-mapped-on-IPv6 address
Found by Ismail Dömez at Suse
bugfix: MSGID corruption in RFC5424 parser under some circumstances
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=275

Version 6.3.4 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-08-02

added support for action() config object
- in rsyslog core engine
- in omfile
- in omusrmsg
bugfix: omusrmsg format usr1,usr2 was no longer supported
bugfix: misaddressing in config handler. In theory, can cause segfault, in practice this is extremely unlikely. Thanks to Marcin for alertig me.

Version 6.3.3 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-07-13

rsyslog.conf format: now parsed by RainerScript parser
this provides the necessary base for future enhancements as well as some
minor immediate ones. For details see: http://blog.gerhards.net/2011/07/rsyslog-633-config-format-improvements.html
performance of script-based filters notably increased
removed compatibility mode as we expect people have adjusted their
confs by now
added support for the “:omfile:” syntax for actions

Version 6.1.11 [BETA] (rgerhards), 2011-07-11