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rsyslog package

  1. Bug #1022545
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 1022545

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

> Minimal risk as the value defined by the patch is only used
> if the $PreserveFQDN variable is defined in /etc/rsyslog.conf,
> which is absent by default.

It turns out this is not the case. There is a critical regression in rsyslog as a result of this patch; the value may not be *used* without $PreserveFQDN, but the code to *set* it is still executed, and there's an off-by-one error in the patch causing malloc corruption (bug #1187876).