Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-3634

Title: Sysklogd Project Sysklogd RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-3634.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Nov 02, 2014

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

7.55%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-3634: rsyslog before 7.6.6 and 8.x before 8.4.1 and sysklogd 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly execute arbitrary code, or have other unspecified impact via a crafted priority (PRI) value that triggers an out-of-bounds array access.

Impacted Vendors

rsyslog 1

sysklogd_project 1

Reference Links

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0411.html http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1654 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00020.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00021.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1397.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1654.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1671.html http://secunia.com/advisories/61494 http://secunia.com/advisories/61720 http://secunia.com/advisories/61930 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3040 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:130 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/30/15 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/03/1 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html http://www.rsyslog.com/remote-syslog-pri-vulnerability/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2381-1 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0411.html http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1654 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00020.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00021.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1397.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1654.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1671.html http://secunia.com/advisories/61494 http://secunia.com/advisories/61720 http://secunia.com/advisories/61930 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3040 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:130 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/30/15 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/03/1 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html http://www.rsyslog.com/remote-syslog-pri-vulnerability/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2381-1

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-3634 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 02, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.