CVE-2008-1720 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1720
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Description: Buffer overflow in rsync 2.6.9 to 3.0.1, with extended attribute (xattr) support enabled, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41766 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-600-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html ST 1019835 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29668 Secunia Advisory: SA29770 Secunia Advisory: SA29777 Secunia Advisory: SA29781 Secunia Advisory: SA29856 Secunia Advisory: SA29861 Secunia Advisory: SA29788 OSVDB 44368 44369 MLIST http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync-announce@lists.samba.org/msg00057.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:084 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-16.xml FEDORA DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1545 CONFIRM http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=591462&group_id=69227 http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/security.html#s3_0_2 http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/security/rsync-3.0.1-xattr-alloc.diff BID 28726

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