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rsync: path-sanitizing bug

Package(s):rsync CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0792
Created:August 16, 2004 Updated:November 1, 2004
Description: This August 2004 rsync advisory reports that 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. It does NOT affect the normal send/receive filenames that specify what files should be transferred (this is because these names happen to get sanitized twice, and thus the second call removes any lingering leading slash(es) that the first call left behind). It does affect certain option paths that cause auxilliary files to be read or written.
Alerts:
Conectiva CLA-2004:881 2004-11-01
Slackware SSA:2004-285-01 2004-10-12
Whitebox WBSA-2004:436-01 2004-09-20
Red Hat RHSA-2004:436-01 2004-09-01
Fedora FEDORA-2004-269 2004-08-19
Fedora FEDORA-2004-268 2004-08-19
Gentoo 200408-17 2004-08-17
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:083 2004-08-17
Netwosix NW-2004-0017 2004-08-17
Trustix TSLSA-2004-0042 2004-08-17
tinysofa TSSA-2004-020-ES 2004-08-16
Debian DSA-538-1 2004-08-17
SuSE SUSE-SA:2004:026 2004-08-16
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.037 2004-08-15

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