August 2004 Security Advisory

August 2004 Security Advisory August 12th, 2004 Background There is a path-sanitizing bug that affects daemon mode in all recent rsync versions including 2.6.2 but only if chroot is disabled. It does NOT affect the normal send/receive filenames that specify what files should be transferred this i...

rsync sanitize_path() Function Arbitrary File Disclosure

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in rsync due to improper validation of user-supplied input to the sanitizepath function. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted path, to generated an absolute filename in place of a relative filename, resulting...

SUSE-SA:2004:026: rsync

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2004:026 rsync. The rsync-team released an advisory about a security problem in rsync. If rsync is running in daemon-mode and without a chroot environment it is possible for a remote attacker to trick rsyncd into creating an absolute...

rsync -- path sanitizing vulnerability

An rsync security advisory reports: There is a path-sanitizing bug that affects daemon mode in all recent rsync versions including 2.6.2 but only if chroot is disabled. The bug may allow a remote user to access files outside of an rsync module's configured path with the privileges configured for...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : rsync (MDKSA-2003:111)

A vulnerability was discovered in all versions of rsync prior to 2.5.7 that was recently used in conjunction with the Linux kernel dobrk vulnerability to compromise a public rsync server. This heap overflow vulnerability, by itself, cannot yield root access, however it does allow arbitrary code...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : rsync (MDKSA-2004:042)

Rsync before 2.6.1 does not properly sanitize paths when running a read/write daemon without using chroot, allows remote attackers to write files outside of the module's path. The updated packages provide a patched rsync to correct this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : rsync (MDKSA-2002:024)

Ethan Benson discovered a bug in rsync where the supplementary groups that the rsync daemon runs as such as root would not be removed from the server process after changing to the specified unprivileged uid and gid. This seems only serious if rsync is called using 'rsync --daemon' from the comman...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : rsync (MDKSA-2002:009)

Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE Security Team performed an audit on the rsync tool and discovered that in several places signed and unsigned numbers were mixed, with the end result being insecure code. These flaws could be abused by remote users to write 0 bytes into rsync's memory and trick rsync...

SuSE-SA:2003:050: rsync

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SuSE-SA:2003:050 rsync. The rsync suite provides client and server tools to easily support an administrator keeping the files of different machines in sync. In most private networks the rsync client tool is used via SSH to fulfill his tasks. I...

Fedora Core 1 : rsync-2.5.7-2 (2003-030)

A heap overflow bug exists in rsync versions prior to 2.5.7. On machines where the rsync server has been enabled, a remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as an unprivileged user. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project cve.mitre.org has assigned the name...

Fedora Core 1 : rsync-2.5.7-5.fc1 (2004-116)

Rsync before 2.6.1 does not properly sanitize paths when running a read/write daemon without using chroot. This could allow a remote attacker to write files outside of the module's 'path', depending on the privileges assigned to the rsync daemon. Users not running an rsync daemon, running a...

rsync: Directory traversal in rsync daemon

Background rsync is a utility that provides fast incremental file transfers. It is used to efficiently synchronize files between hosts and is used by emerge to fetch Gentoo's Portage tree. rsyncd is the rsync daemon, which listens to connections from rsync clients. Description When rsyncd is used...

CVE-2004-0426

rsync before 2.6.1 does not properly sanitize paths when running a read/write daemon without using chroot, which allows remote attackers to write files outside of the module's path...

CVE-2004-0426

rsync before 2.6.1 does not properly sanitize paths when running a read/write daemon without using chroot, which allows remote attackers to write files outside of the module's path...

FreeBSD : rsync buffer overflow in server mode (167)

The following package needs to be updated: rsync %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated by freebsdpkg5729b8ed5d7511d880e30020ed76ef5a.nasl. Disabled on 2011/10/02. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. This script contains information extracted from VuXML : Copyright 2003-20...

FreeBSD : rsync path traversal issue (168)

The following package needs to be updated: rsync %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated by freebsdpkg73ea07069c5711d893660020ed76ef5a.nasl. Disabled on 2011/10/01. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. This script contains information extracted from VuXML : Copyright 2003-20...

RHEL 2.1 / 3 : rsync (RHSA-2004:192)

An updated rsync package that fixes a directory traversal security flaw is now available. Rsync is a program for synchronizing files over a network. Rsync before 2.6.1 does not properly sanitize paths when running a read/write daemon without using chroot. This could allow a remote attacker to wri...

RHEL 2.1 / 3 : rsync (RHSA-2003:399)

Updated rsync packages are now available that fix a heap overflow in the Rsync server. rsync is a program for sychronizing files over the network. A heap overflow bug exists in rsync versions prior to 2.5.7. On machines where the rsync server has been enabled, a remote attacker could use this fla...

[SECURITY] [DSA 499-2] New rsync packages fix directory traversal bug

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 499-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman June 2nd, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: rsync security update

An updated rsync package that fixes a directory traversal security flaw is now available. Rsync is a program for synchronizing files over a network. Rsync before 2.6.1 does not properly sanitize paths when running a read/write daemon without using chroot. This could allow a remote attacker to wri...