Fedora 27: Rsync 3.1.3 Critical: Sanitation Bypass Fix Overview

Rsync uses a reliable algorithm to bring remote and host files into

sync very quickly. Rsync is fast because it just sends the differences

in the files over the network instead of sending the complete

files. Rsync is often used as a very powerful mirroring process or

just as a more capable replacement for the rcp command. A technical

report which describes the rsync algorithm is included in this

package.

New version 3.1.3, includes security fix for CVE-2018-5764

[ 1 ] Bug #1536662 - CVE-2018-5764 rsync: sanitization bypass in parse_argument in oprions.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1536662

[ 2 ] Bug #1539466 - rsync-3.1.3 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1539466

su -c 'dnf upgrade rsync' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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