Description: A vulnerability has been reported in rsync, which can potentially be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error within the extended attributes (xattr) support and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but requires that the extended attributes support is enabled.
The vulnerability is reported in version 2.6.9 through 3.0.1.
NOTE: Version 2.6.9 had to be patched to support extended attributes.
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