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Ubuntu: USN-500-1 Critical: Rsync Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2007
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Tackling a significant vulnerability in rsync that allows arbitrary command execution through specially crafted files on Ubuntu machines.
Sebastian Krahmer discovered that rsync contained an off-by-one miscalculation when handling certain file paths

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security advisory security issue critical software update remote code execution rsync ubuntu

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-500-1 August 20, 2007

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security advisory security issue critical software update remote code execution rsync ubuntu

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