> 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).

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  Backport upstream bugfix "$PreserveFQDN on" not working properly

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