[Bug 1059592] [NEW] Message and memory corruption in rsyslog

[Stuart]

Public bug reported:

When using the RFC5424 format, I've seen a number of corruptions in the
messages (missing messages and unprintable characters). I've also had
rsyslog crash out with "*** glibc detected *** rsyslogd: corrupted
double-linked list: ... ***".  The message corruptions match this
upstream bug - http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=296

Based on the bug fixes to rsyslog between 5.8.6 and 5.10.0, it appears
that there have been various race conditions and memory corruption
issues that have since been fixed (5.8.6 is now nearly a year old).

In addition, rsyslog has some errors in the RFC5424 format that would
also be fixed by an update to 5.10.0 (like the nil value for PID and the
hostname in "last message repeated X times")

System information:
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
rsyslog 5.8.6-1ubuntu8

** Affects: rsyslog (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Message and memory corruption in rsyslog

Status in “rsyslog” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When using the RFC5424 format, I've seen a number of corruptions in
  the messages (missing messages and unprintable characters). I've also
  had rsyslog crash out with "*** glibc detected *** rsyslogd: corrupted
  double-linked list: ... ***".  The message corruptions match this
  upstream bug - http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=296

  Based on the bug fixes to rsyslog between 5.8.6 and 5.10.0, it appears
  that there have been various race conditions and memory corruption
  issues that have since been fixed (5.8.6 is now nearly a year old).

  In addition, rsyslog has some errors in the RFC5424 format that would
  also be fixed by an update to 5.10.0 (like the nil value for PID and
  the hostname in "last message repeated X times")

  System information:
  Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  rsyslog 5.8.6-1ubuntu8

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