Gentoo GLSA-200605-05 Warning: Risk of Rsync Buffer Overflow Attack

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200605-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: rsync: Potential integer overflow Date: May 06, 2006 Bugs: #131631 ID: 200605-05

Synopsis ======= An attacker having write access to an rsync module might be able to execute arbitrary code on an rsync server.
Background ========= rsync is a server and client 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.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/rsync < 2.6.8 >= 2.6.8
========== An integer overflow was found in the receive_...