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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2022:6181-01 Important Rsync Security Fix

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Calendar Grey August 24, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The latest rsync update resolves a significant security vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, enhancing the safety of file synchronization operations.
An update for rsync is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The rsync utility enables the users to copy and synchronize files locally or across a network. Synchronization with rsync is fast because rsync only sends the differences in files over the network instead of sending whole files. The rsync utility is also used as a mirroring tool.
Security Fix(es):
* rsync: remote arbitrary files write inside the directories of connecting peers (CVE-2022-29154)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux rsync important advisory file synchronization arbitrary file write

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29154 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
noarch: rsync-daemon-3.2.3-9.el9_0.2.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9):
Source: rsync-3.2.3-9.el9_0.2.src.rpm
aarch64: rsync-3.2.3-9.el9_0.2.aarch64.rpm rsync-debuginfo-3.2.3-9.el9_0.2.aarch64.rpm rsync-debugsource-3.2.3-9.el9_0.2.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: rsync-3.2.3-9.el9_0.2.ppc64le.rpm rsync-debuginfo-3.2.3-9.el9_0.2.ppc64le.rpm rsync-debugsource-3.2.3-9.el9_0.2.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: rsync-3.2.3-9.el9_0.2.s390x.rpm rsync-debuginfo-3.2.3-9.el9_0.2.s390x.rpm rsync-debugsource-3.2.3-9.el9_0.2.s390x.rpm
x86_64: rsync-3.2.3-9.el9_0.2.x86_64.rpm rsync-debuginfo-3.2.3-9.el9_0.2.x86_64.rpm rsync-debugsource-3.2.3-9.el9_0.2.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:6181-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6181
Issue date: 2022-08-24

Topic

An update for rsync is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux rsync important advisory file synchronization arbitrary file write

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2110928 - CVE-2022-29154 rsync: remote arbitrary files write inside the directories of connecting peers

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