Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tags -1 - security

Am 03.10.2014 um 01:43 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:

> When a vulnerability is corrected, it is important to restart
> the daemon. But this was not done correctly, and the vulnerable
> version is still running!
> 
> root      1990     1  0 Sep29 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd
> 
> And from the output during the upgrade:
> 
> Setting up rsyslog (8.4.2-1) ...
> [ ok ] Stopping enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd already stopped.
> [....] Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd Already running. If you want to 
> run multiple instances, you need to specify different pid files (use -i 
> option)
> [ ok ady started.
> 
> Something seems to be really wrong...

Looks like a bug in start-stop-daemon which is used by the sysv init
script. When running under systemd this is not an issue.

You should poke the dpkg maintainers.

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