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Gentoo: GLSA-200709-13 Normal: Rsync User-Assisted Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 20, 2007
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Recent discoveries revealed two user-enabled vulnerabilities within rsync that could result in arbitrary execution of code. It's important to update rsync to mitigate any potential threats.
Two user-assisted buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in rsync.

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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 ======= Two user-assisted buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in rsync.
Background ========= rsync is a file transfer program to keep remote directories synchronized.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/rsync < 2.6.9-r3 >= 2.6.9-r3
========== 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 ===== A remote attac...

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