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<glsa id="200709-13">
  <title>rsync: Two buffer overflows</title>
  <synopsis>
    Two user-assisted buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in
    rsync.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">rsync</product>
  <announced>September 20, 2007</announced>
  <revised>September 20, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>189132</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/rsync" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.6.9-r3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.6.9-r3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    rsync is a file transfer program to keep remote directories
    synchronized.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Sebastian Krahmer from the SUSE Security Team discovered two off-by-one
    errors in the function "f_name()" in file sender.c when processing
    overly long directory names.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to synchronize a repository
    containing specially crafted directories, leading to the execution of
    arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All rsync users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-misc/rsync-2.6.9-r3&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4091">CVE-2007-4091</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:30:02 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:00:07 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:04:37 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>