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Gentoo: GLSA-200407-10 Normal: Rsync Directory Traversal Threat

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Calendar Grey July 12, 2004
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Gentoo's notice on the critical flaw in rsync that permits directory traversal, outlining the severe risks of system exploitation.
Under specific conditions, the rsync daemon is vulnerable to a directory traversal allowing to write files outside a sync module.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200407-10 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: rsync: Directory traversal in rsync daemon Date: July 12, 2004 Bugs: #49534 ID: 200407-10

Synopsis ======= Under specific conditions, the rsync daemon is vulnerable to a directory traversal allowing to write files outside a sync module.
Background ========= rsync is a utility that provides fast incremental file transfers. It is used to efficiently synchronize files between hosts and is used by emerge to fetch Gentoo's Portage tree. rsyncd is the rsync daemon, which listens to connections from rsync clients.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/rsync <= 2.6.0-r...

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