On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM Gyorgy Sarvari via lists.openembedded.org
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Details: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3243
>
> The issue is about file permissions: by default rsyslog creates
> world-readable
> files. In case a log message contains some sensitive information, then
> that's
> exposed to every user on the system.
>
> However the rsyslog.conf file that is shipped with the recipe solves it: it
> already sets non-world-readable default permissions on all files, so this
> vulnerability is fixed in the default OE recipe.
>
> See also this package in OpenSuse[1], where it is solved the same way.
>
> [1]: https://build.opensuse.org/requests/619439/changes (rsyslog.conf.in)
>
> Signed-off-by: Gyorgy Sarvari <[email protected]>
> ---
>  meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rsyslog.conf | 3 ++-
>  meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_8.2402.0.bb  | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rsyslog.conf
> b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rsyslog.conf
> index dbfefb7597..6316efb629 100644
> --- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rsyslog.conf
> +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rsyslog.conf
> @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ $ModLoad imklog   # kernel logging (formerly provided by
> rklogd)
>
>  #
>  # Set the default permissions
> -#
> +# Setting the $FileCreateMode not world readable fixes CVE-2015-3243
> +#
>  $FileOwner root
>  $FileGroup adm
>  $FileCreateMode 0640
> diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_8.2402.0.bb
> b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_8.2402.0.bb
> index af46cc14d7..59944cd70c 100644
> --- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_8.2402.0.bb
> +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_8.2402.0.bb
> @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] =
> "acbdd8579489df36b4a383dc6909a61b7623807f0aff54c062115f2de7
>  UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/releases";
>  UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"
>
> +CVE_STATUS[CVE-2015-3243] = "fix-file-included: The shipped default
> rsyslog.conf contains the fix"
> +
>
>
 fix-file-included isn't available in scarthgap so we will have to use
something else.
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