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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1720

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-1720

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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