K5165 : rsync directory traversal vulnerability CAN-2004-0792

Security Advisory Description

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F5 products and versions that have been evaluated for this Security Advisory

Directory traversal vulnerability in the sanitize_path function in util.c for rsync 2.6.2 and earlier, when chroot is disabled, allows attackers to read or write certain files.

Information about this advisory is available at the following location:

<http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0792&gt;