Gentoo: GLSA-200709-13 Normal: Rsync User-Assisted Buffer Overflow
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September 20, 2007
Two user-assisted buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in rsync.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200709-13
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: rsync: Two buffer overflows
Date: September 20, 2007
Bugs: #189132
ID: 200709-13
Synopsis
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Two user-assisted buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered
in rsync.
Background
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rsync is a file transfer program to keep remote directories
synchronized.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-misc/rsync < 2.6.9-r3 >= 2.6.9-r3
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Sebastian Krahmer from the SUSE Security Team discovered two off-by-one
errors in the function "f_name()" in file sender.c when processing
overly long directory names.
Impact
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A remote attac...
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