Package: syslog-ng
Version: 3.1.3-2
Severity: normal
Whilst overhauling our syslog infrastructure, I noticed garbage was appearing
in our logs. I use the following template when writing to files:
template("$ISODATE $FULLHOST <$FACILITY.$PRIORITY> $MSGHDR$MSGONLY\n")
It turns out[1] that normalize_hostnames() has an off-by-one problem and a
patch was produced[2] soon after 3.1.3 was released. The bug means
$HOST/$FULLHOST do not include a NULL terminator at the end of the string, so
garbage appears.
Any chance of including the fix?
Cheers
[1] http://marc.info/?l=syslog-ng&m=129044796131859&w=2
[2]
http://git.balabit.hu/?p=bazsi/syslog-ng-3.1.git;a=commitdiff;h=f6efe1a82c3726c7f65ca0dd173af8d3f58824aa;hp=3361f72c6c35d198e174200780d9744604e2cdf6
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-kirkwood
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages syslog-ng depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcap2 1:2.19-3 support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii libdbi0 0.8.2-3 Database Independent Abstraction L
ii libevtlog0 0.2.8~1-2 Syslog event logger library
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libnet1 1.1.4-2 library for the construction and h
ii libpcre3 8.02-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-4 SSL shared libraries
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-19 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages syslog-ng recommends:
ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility
Versions of packages syslog-ng suggests:
pn libdbd-mysql <none> (no description available)
pn libdbd-pgsql <none> (no description available)
pn libdbd-sqlite3 <none> (no description available)
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
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