Fedora: FEDORA-2003-030 Critical Alert: Rsync Heap Overflow Issue

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.

A heap overflow bug exists in rsync versions prior to 2.5.7. On

machines where the rsync server has been enabled, a remote attacker

could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as an unprivileged user.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has

assigned the name CAN-2003-0962 to this issue.

- rebuild

* Wed Dec 03 2003 Bill Nottingham <notting@RedHat.com> 2.5.7-1

- update to 2.5.7

4e76615d1b2192be4c43d040b85ce67e SRPMS/rsync-2.5.7-2.src.rpm

1072294ffa8bbb37d760600093077348 i386/rsync-2.5.7-2.i386.rpm

fa5d5ca86e6af5c15153800274443f90 i386/debug/rsync-debuginfo-2.5.7-2.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.