rsyslog

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

Version 7.6.6 [v7.6-stable] 2014-09-30

• 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
• bugfix: potential segfault on startup on 64 bit systems
  This happened immediately on startup during config processing. Once rsyslog got past this stage, it could not happen.
• bugfix: build problems on SuSe Linux
  Thanks Andreas Stieger for the patch