GLSA-200512-17 : scponly: Multiple privilege escalation issues

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200512-17 scponly: Multiple privilege escalation issues Max Vozeler discovered that the scponlyc command allows users to chroot into arbitrary directories. Furthermore, Pekka Pessi reported that scponly insufficiently validates...

scponly -- local privilege escalation exploits

Max Vozeler reports: If ALL the following conditions are true, administrators using scponly-4.1 or older may be at risk of a local privilege escalation exploit: the chrooted setuid scponlyc binary is installed regular non-scponly users have interactive shell access to the box a user executable...

rsync path sanitation vulnerability

A vulnerability has been reported in rsync, which potentially can be exploited by malicious users to read or write arbitrary files on a vulnerable system. rsync is a software product for keeping files synched across multiple systems. Rsync is a network-based program and typically communicates ove...

rsync path sanitation vulnerability

A vulnerability has been reported in rsync, which potentially can be exploited by malicious users to read or write arbitrary files on a vulnerable system. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2004 David Maciejak Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : rsync update (SSA:2004-124-01)

New rsync packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix a security issue. When running an rsync server without the chroot option it is possible for an attacker to write outside of the allowed directory. Any sites running rsync in that mode should upgrade right away and...

Slackware 10.0 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : rsync (SSA:2004-285-01)

New rsync 2.6.3 packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, and -current to a fix security issue when rsync is run as a non-chrooted server. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : rsync security update (SSA:2003-337-01)

Rsync is a file transfer client and server. A security problem which may lead to unauthorized machine access or code execution has been fixed by upgrading to rsync-2.5.7. This problem only affects machines running rsync in daemon mode, and is easier to exploit if the non-default option 'use chroo...

FreeBSD : rsync -- path sanitizing vulnerability (2689f4cb-ec4c-11d8-9440-000347a4fa7d)

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...

CVE-2004-2093

Buffer overflow in the opensocketout function in socket.c for rsync 2.5.7 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long RSYNCPROXY environment variable. NOTE: since rsync is not setuid, this issue does not provide any additional...

CVE-2004-2093

Buffer overflow in the opensocketout function in socket.c for rsync 2.5.7 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long RSYNCPROXY environment variable. NOTE: since rsync is not setuid, this issue does not provide any additional...

CVE-2004-2093

Buffer overflow in the open_socket_out function of rsync’s socket.c affects rsync 2.5.7 and earlier. A long RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can allow a local user to crash the process and potentially execute arbitrary code. Since rsync is not setuid, the impact is limited to privileges already a...

rsnapshot: Local privilege escalation

Background rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync, allowing local and remote systems backups. Description The copysymlink subroutine in rsnapshot follows symlinks when changing file ownership, instead of changing the ownership of the symlink itself. Impact Under certain...

[Full-disclosure] rsnapshot Security Advisory 001

============================================================================ rsnapshot Security Advisory 001 [email protected] http://www.rsnapshot.org/security/ Apr 10th, 2005 Nathan Rosenquist ============================================================================ Severity: high...

Directory Traversal

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Directory traversal vulnerability in the sanitizepath function in util.c for rsync 2.6.2 and earlier, when chroot is disabled, allows attackers to read or write certain files. Remediation There is no fixed version f...

CVE-2004-0792

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

CVE-2004-0792

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

CVE-2004-0792

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

DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0792

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

[slackware-security] rsync

New rsync 2.6.3 packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, and -current to a fix security issue when rsync is run as a non-chrooted server. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

Debian DSA-106-2 : rsync - remote exploit

Sebastian Krahmer found several places in rsync a popular tool to synchronise files between machines where signed and unsigned numbers were mixed which resulted in insecure code see securityfocus.com. This could be abused by remote users to write 0-bytes in rsync's memory and trick rsync into...